Ecuador’s annual pilgrimage
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Every year since Simon Bolivar first decreed it in 1824, pilgrims bring a wooden idol of the Virgen de El Cisne — their representation of Mary, the mother of Jesus — down from the small, mountain village of El Cisne to the provincial capital Loja.
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