Boatmen carried out their traditional maritime pilgrimage to the Virgin of the Seas, on the islet of La Yerbabuena in the port of Guerrero, to ask for health and to give thanks for all the blessings, especially after the devastation of hurricanes Otis and John.
Minutes after 10 a.m., about 80 faithful gathered on the beach ‘El Morro’, where some glass-bottomed boats arrived to take people on board and begin the journey near the island of La Roqueta.
The president of the Union of Vanguardist Cooperative Societies of the state of Guerrero, Arturo Guatemala Pantoja, stressed that the pilgrimage in honor of the Virgin of the Seas is to “thank her for still being standing, for our businesses, with the difficulties that everyone already knows, but health is the most important thing.”
“We are going to thank her for still keeping us healthy and ask her to help us and for tourism to come, it is a caravan for peace that is being made,” he added in statements to a group of reporters.
The cooperative leader acknowledged that during these vacations only 30 percent of the staff will be working, since there are those who do not have boats or jet skis to work with, after the damage caused by the hurricanes.
On the other hand, the restaurant owner, Jesús Zamora Cervantes, stressed that the pilgrimage “is also a message that Acapulco is alive, all the tourists and all those who want to visit it, we are ready to receive them.”
Given the devotion of the people of Mexico to the Virgin of Guadalupe, in 1955, Mrs. Amelia Sodi Pallares had the idea of placing a statue of her submerged in the bay of Acapulco and calling it ‘Queen of the Seas’.
The statue of the Virgin was built in Mexico City and later moved to the port of Acapulco, traveling the route Cuernavaca, Iguala and Chilpancingo for two days.
Source: elfinanciero
