Venezuelan cultural center honors virgin of the valley
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The Ateneo Luis Mariano Rivera cultural center in Carúpano, Venezuela, held a cultural evening to honor the Virgen del Valle, a patron saint of eastern Venezuela.
Father Jesús Villarroel led a Mass as part of the event, and local artists displayed images of the Virgin. Several dance groups participated in the celebration, including Expresión Dramática Octágono, Fundación Niño Jesús, Escuela de Ballet y Danza Domingo Renault, and Lucy Cordero’s ballet school from Playa Grande.
The event also featured a performance of décimas, a form of Spanish poetry, by five children from the Guaraúnos Cultural Foundation. Auristela Tenías, the Tourism and Culture commissioner for the center, stated that attendees prayed for inspiration to build a more humane and Christian Carúpano. Father Villarroel emphasized that devotion to the Virgen del Valle is ongoing for people in the eastern region, and he asked people to remember those who died in earthquakes and other events in Venezuela.
