Historical visit to the Royal Nautical Club of Valencia, where a campaign mass was held (Photo Pep Portas)

We have received this note from the press cabinet of the very dear Royal Nautical Club of Valencia, and we have published it with all the possible affection to the great club that it is... it is the first time in our history that we have published a news of religious court, and we do so with the conviction that actions such as that of the first club of the Levine... must be supported with all the force possible... at a time when our society has entered a very dangerous drift, of trying to hide our beliefs, and not to preserve our oldest traditions. From this forum an excited one: LIVE THE VIRGEN OF THE DISAMPLACES!.

Digital Nautical

The pilgrim image of the Virgin of the Unprotected has participated this weekend, for the first time in the history of the processional image, in the floral marine offering to the image of the Mare de Déu submerged in the Royal Nautical Club of Valencia (RCNV), an act in which the Patron was accompanied by 49 boats of the Club.

The marine offering took place yesterday, Sunday, and was part of the visit that the Pilgrim has made this weekend both to the Royal Nautical Club of Valencia and to the pedanía of La Punta and its parish of La Pursima Concepción.

The processional image of the Mare de Déu arrived in its maremóvil to the RCN of Valencia and was moved to the 25 Mill where it was raised to the "Riaza River," the ship of the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard that took it to where the image is submerged, accompanied by 49 ships of the RCNV.

There took place the encounter of both images, one on the Riaza River and the other, 10 meters deep, to which 20 divers from CB GISED Valencia took flowers. After the offering, the ships returned to the Royal Nautical Club where a plaque was discovered as a reminder of the visit of the Pilgrim.

The image was carried on the shoulders to the main square where a campaign mass was held by the vice-rector of the Basilica, Alvaro Almenar, who stressed that it was a "historic" visit as it was the first time that the Pilgrim took part in this offering to the submerged image. Finally, the RCNV's badge and the Gisted Valencia Diving Club, organizers of the marine offering that has been held for over 40 years, were imposed on the processional image.