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Tradition of the Christ of Massanassa and the cholera epidemics

Massanassa, L'Horta Sud, Valencia

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Tradition of the Christ of Massanassa and the cholera epidemics

Curiosity · Massanassa, L'Horta Sud, Valencia

Image of Massanassa, not of the place itself.

A 19th-century religious tradition recalling how the town carried an image of Christ in procession during the severe cholera epidemic of 1885, which local people say abated on the feast of San Juan.

1885

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