The town of El Quinche just outside Quito is preparing to welcome 800,000 people. The pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Virgin of El Quinche is scheduled for November 20, 21 and 22. But activities begin this Saturday at 07:00 with a 15-kilometer hike from the community of Oyambarillo to El Quinche. For the big pilgrimage, there will be five routes that pilgrims will take. Pope Francis visited El Quinche during his trip to Ecuador earlier this year.
Local people have told me you have to go on this pilgrimage at least seven times before you can ask the Virgin for a favor. The image of the Virgin is a wooden sculpture carved in the 16th century by Don Diego de Robles.
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Praise God that we have access to the Creator, that our sins have been paid for, and there is no pilgrimage required!
