The local festival honors the Virgin of Health and She is revered by the local indiginous people. On the eighth of each month pigrims make penitental offerings (ie crawling across the plaza and to the alter) and on December eight the whole parish and town joins in. It is one Mass after another in the Church and outside it is a big fair complete with midway and fireworks. Thousands of people press into the narrow streets for a fun party. The sounds are hard to desribe purhaps simply describing it a cacaphony of sound - I now know exactly what that word means.
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