Adrián Ríos Bailón used his pregón de Valme to speak openly about a devotion he said he had carried quietly inside for a long time, describing the Virgen de Valme — the Protectora de Dos Hermanas — as a guide and an inspiration in his life, according to ABC España.
"You are so small, yet so immense," the preacher declared during his intervention.
That line, ABC España reports, captured a central paradox of the devotion: an image of modest dimensions that awakens a sentiment indifferent to distances and frontiers. Ríos is a canon of Seville Cathedral and parish priest of the parish of San Juan Pablo II.
