Marian devotion
Purísima Xiqueta
Patrona de Benissa (Alicante)
Benissa is a patron of the Purísima Xiqueta - "la Purísima Niña" -, a very intimate local advocation, proclaimed as patron of the villa in 1864, whose holidays of April are the soul of the population.
Origin and history
The Purísima Xiceta - literally "the Purísima Niña," because of the small and tenderness of its image - is a local advocation of the Immaculate Conception very rooted in Benissa, in the Marina Alta. She was proclaimed patron of the villa in 1864.
His patron parties, in April, are the center of Benissa's festive and religious life, with great popular participation and entrenching devotion to "the Xipete."
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