El Rocio, Spain : VHS/DVD, The Romeria de El Rocio is the most important pilgrimage to the Blessed Mother on the Iberian Peninsula. El Rocio is in Andalusia in the deep south of Spain. The many pilgrims who flock to the little town every year come to venerate the Holy Virgin of El Rocio, also know as the Virgin of the Dew. In the 15th century a hunter who lived near Almonte, discovered a statuette of Mary hidden in the trunk of a tree. He took it with him but was overcome with fatigue on his way home. When he awoke the statuette had disappeared. The hunter returned to the tree where he found the figurine again. In that place, called Rocina, a little church was built, and thus began the veneration of the Virgin of the Dew. During the week before Pentecost about a million pilgrims, the Rocieros, make their way to El Rocio on foot, on horseback, in oxcarts, on tractors or in cars. The trip often takes many days. During the night after Pentecost Sunday the sacred event will take place. The Virgin of the Dew will emerge from the church to greet her people. No one knows the exact timing. For the people of Andalusia there will always be an El Rocio. The day after Pentecost the Rocieros are already making preparations for the following year. For them El Rocio is more than just a pilgrimage. It is a way of life.

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			El Rocio, Spain

The Romeria de El Rocio is the most important pilgrimage to the Blessed Mother on the Iberian Peninsula. El Rocio is in Andalusia in the deep south of Spain. The many pilgrims who flock to the little town every year come to venerate the Holy Virgin of El Rocio, also know as the Virgin of the Dew. In the 15th century a hunter who lived near Almonte, discovered a statuette of Mary hidden in the trunk of a tree. He took it with him but was overcome with fatigue on his way home. When he awoke the statuette had disappeared. The hunter returned to the tree where he found the figurine again. In that place, called Rocina, a little church was built, and thus began the veneration of the Virgin of the Dew. During the week before Pentecost about a million pilgrims, the Rocieros, make their way to El Rocio on foot, on horseback, in oxcarts, on tractors or in cars. The trip often takes many days. During the night after Pentecost Sunday the sacred event will take place. The Virgin of the Dew will emerge from the church to greet her people. No one knows the exact timing. For the people of Andalusia there will always be an El Rocio. The day after Pentecost the Rocieros are already making preparations for the following year. For them El Rocio is more than just a pilgrimage. It is a way of life.

This title is from the collection Pilgrimages of Europe.

Pilgrimages are as old as mankind. The mystical and spiritual nature of a pilgrimage holds an eternal, mythic appeal to the imagination of many people. Every year millions of pilgrims of all nationalities, young and old, set out on these voyages of the soul. The twelve documentaries in the series Pilgrimages of Europe are experiential journeys to some of the most sacred routes and holy places throughout Christian Europe.

These half-hour documentaries, richly filmed, look at the spiritual, cultural and historical background of twelve pilgrimage sites throughout Europe. However, the people, the pilgrims themselves, are at the heart of these stories – their purposes and desires, their motivations, and the great sense of the holy and the sacred which they find on their journeys of faith.

LENGTH: 30 Minutes

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El Rocio, Spain
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