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Tucumán and La Banda Mark Mama Antula’s Feast With Crowds, Relics and Senior Clergy

Her 2024 canonization as Argentina’s first saint is fueling Lenten parish observances marked by relic veneration, pilgrimages, senior clergy.

Overview

  • Hundreds packed Parroquia Nuestra Señora de las Gracias in Tucumán, where Archbishop Carlos Sánchez presided and a First‑Class relic kept there since 2013 was venerated.
  • Pilgrims arrived from across the province, with long queues to pray before the relic as rain failed to thin the turnout or the devotional atmosphere.
  • At La Banda’s Parroquia Cristo Rey, Cardinal Vicente Bokalic led the Eucharistic celebration attended by Mayor Roger Nediani and municipal officials.
  • Homilies linked the feast to the Third Sunday of Lent and cited Mama Antula’s missionary motto about carrying God’s love where it is not yet known, felt or experienced.
  • Bokalic recalled the Casa de Ejercicios Espirituales founded by Mama Antula as a place through which roughly 70,000 people passed, as parishes held pilgrimages, Masses and baptisms under the theme “Caminemos junto a Mama Antula.”