travel > Destinations > caribbean > Cuba > Santuario de San Lázaro

Santuario de San Lázaro

TIME : 2016/2/18 9:37:46

The focus of Cuba's biggest annual pilgrimage lacks ostentation and is tucked away in the rustic village of El Rincón. The saint inside the church is San Lázaro (represented by the orisha Babalú Ayé in the Santería religion), the patron saint of healing and the sick. Hundreds come to light candles and lay flowers daily.

There's a small museum displaying a raft of previous offerings to San Lázaro in a chapel next door.