'Grateful for the miracle of being saved from death'

Every year, in the small village of Santa Marta de Ribarteme, one of the most curious pilgrimages in Spain is held. Starting after a mass at the village's parish church, believers grateful for the miracle of being saved from death go on a pilgrimage in a procession of coffins. Carried by friends and relatives and while 'Virgin Santa Martha, star of the North, we bring you those who saw death' is song out loud, the pilgrim’s process from the cemetery back to the church to round it together with the parish church statue of Saint Marta de Ribarteme, the patron Saint of resurrection.