“It’s not so hot for August”, jokes a resident of Sant Josep at 6pm in the sweltering heat, while the calendar indicates that in one hour the celebration of the feast of San Isidro, the patron saint of farmers will begin after a two year hiatus. If we were to pay attention to the thermometer instead of the saints’ calendar, it would be more appropriate for it to be the day of Sant Ciriac.
Sant Josep residents keen to enjoy the moment again
Fourteen carriages (the last one pulled by a pony), and on them the members of the Grup Folklòric Sant Josep de sa Talaia (organizer of the popular celebration), paraded up and down calle Pere Escanellas for the first time in two years as a result of the covid pandemic. You could tell by the way they cheered as they passed by that the residents were eager to enjoy this moment again. “It was about time, we missed it,” exclaimed Josep LluÃs Mollà , parish priest of Sant Josep, after descending from the first of the carriages on the second lap, just in front of the temple. Mollà did not stop smiling during “the beautiful walk”, perhaps because it was like “resuming, with joy and happiness”, normality after two years in which time stopped, as he later pointed out during the sermon.
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