Singular religious holidays in Gallicia

From these dates holidays coincide in Gallicia with deep religious root that they emphasize for his beauty or for his singularity on having showed the deepest and particular religious devotion of the Galician people.
The holidays of the Corpus Christi are lived in a special way in Gallicia, the celebrations of Redondela are outstanding up to 14 and especially on the same 14th The Corpus Christi in Ponteareas with his beautiful floral carpets, which given his importance and beauty has the denomination of Holiday of Interest Tourist International. If you can do not get lost on the night of this next Saturday the dressmaking of the carpets for the neighbors and on the following Sunday morning enjoy the work finished in all his splendor.

On the 23rd and 24th of June it is celebrated in Lalín O Bra, in Saint Baia de Losón, big Galician pilgrimage with many pilgrims inflow.
The pilgrims and the most devout faithful do the peregrination on foot, doing the last kilometer of the way of knees to treat the illnesses of the soul, how or badly of ollo and or meigallo. A ritual that does that it is the only place in Gallicia where for the church exorcisms and cleanlinesses of spirit are still done by the parish priest of the temple.

On July 11 San Benitiño of Lérez, in the suburbs of Pontevedra, the crowded pilgrimage of the "saint máis milagreiro", as they spread you will sing them popular. Benedictine San is one of the most venerated saints of Gallicia, cult that goes back to the same Alta Edad Media and that propagates with the order of the Cister that has in Gallicia important monasteries. Saint to whom the devout ones come with the intention of treating some evil, especially the warts. Lérez is an ancient Benedictine monastery, sanctum raised in the banks of the river Lérez, where the small image of the saint is venerated. The devout ones happen under his altar and smear a finger in the lamp of oil that they say "miraculously".
On July 29 Santa Marta. Procession of the Shrouds (Procession you give mortallas) in Ribaterme-As Neves, province of Pontevedra, and the third Sunday of September Procession of the Shrouds in Pobra do Caramiñal

Singular courtship with coffins include you, with origins in the XVth century that are celebrated in the parish of O Dean in the procession of Jesus Nazarene and that even interest has woken up in Singapore. Those who were rubbing the death entrusted to themselves to the Nazarene requesting his salvation, on this day as gratitude they walk after the one that should be its own coffin and his relatives carry the coffin and candles, all this with a religious fervor that surprises and sobrecoge even to the skeptics.