Two thousand 500 children offered a mega-serenade to honor La Chinita
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Published at: 15/11/2024 10:46 PM
A total of 2,500 children offered a mega-serenade to La Chinita as an offering from the marching bands to the patron saint of the Zulians, said the president of the Corporation for the Development of the Zulian Region (CORPOZULIA), Néstor Reverol, on his account on the social network Instagram.
He specified that the children are part of 32 groups; 23 from Zulia and eight from the states of Falcón, Táchira, Mérida and Nueva Esparta, who began an unprecedented musical march from the headquarters of CORPOZULIA to the house of La Chinita.
“CORPOZULIA joins this tribute to La Chinita with the aspiration that this activity brings together not only the bands that participated in this emotional event, but those that in the rest of the country instill love, responsibility and family discipline in the girls and boys who participate in them,” he said.
The group of musicians, composed of girls and boys aged four, six, eight, nine, twelve and fourteen, strolled along Bella Vista Avenue, turned around Padilla Avenue, crossed Venezuela Street and continued to the Marian temple where a crowd was waiting for them.
The rector pastor of the Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, Nedward Andrade, prayerfully thanked the musical offering.
“Our Lady of Chiquinquirá and her people are grateful for this gesture of so many children for pleasing our mother on such significant dates and we pray that the marching bands will proclaim to the world the message of faith and hope of our patron saint,” he said.
The highlight of the occasion came when loaded by thirty servants of Mary, the image of Chiquinquirá appeared on the porch of the Basilica next to the chords of the hymn of La Chinita: Glory to You Chaste Lady, sung by the hundreds of tubas, trombones, flutes, saxophones, clarinets, guiros, bells and timpani played by the children, accompanied by the choreographic bodies of the 31 marching bands.
The activity, the product of the work of CORPOZULIA, the National Federation of Marching Bands and the Archdiocese of Maracaibo, rescues a tradition whose national reference is the land of Zulia. La Chinita went out to receive the little performers.