Valencia blooms in Marian devotion during the Fallas festival | Shalom World News
In the heart of Valencia, Spain, hundreds of thousands of women in traditional dress move like a living stream through the streets, each carrying flowers for the Virgin of the Abandoned during the Fallas offering. Their blossoms are gifts of love, thanksgiving, and quiet pleas for her protection. As each stem is laid upon her mantle, thousands of bouquets come together, blooming into a magnificent tapestry of devotion.