Week of life in the Diocese of Leon, NicaraguaThe parish community of Santo Tomás Apostle, in the diocese of León, Nicaragua, is preparing this April 29 and 30 to hold the 27th edition of the Gastronomic Fair of the Sea, an initiative that offers local, national and foreign visitors different seafood products.
The parish of St. Thomas the Apostle is located in the Port of Corinto, which is the main commercial port of the country and the second most important for the arrival of cruise ships.
The beginnings
It was Joseph Schendel, a priest of German origin, who initiated different social projects in this parish, projects that have been continued by the different parish priests. priests who have succeeded him. For more than 40 years this parish has been creating projects to help the poorest and neediest, which are materialized in several charitable works: Santa Eduviges Home for the Elderly, Parish Institute Presbítero Emilio Santiago Chavarría, Children's Dining Room, Parish Dispensary, a special education school, Parish Caritas and the Catholic channel Santa Cruz Television.
To support these works, 27 years ago a woman named There Arana had the initiative to make a fair with seafood products. This fair grew with the help of all the communities of the parish and hearts of good will. Later it became known as the "Gastronomic Fair of the Sea", whose organization and execution has always been the responsibility of the Catholic Church in Corinto, for the benefit of the social works of this parish community.
Teamwork
The management of the preparation of the fair corresponds to the different commissions, integrated by parishioners of the parish of Santo Tomás. These have different roles for the good execution of the services offered to all visitors and begin their work months before the celebration of the Fair.
What began 27 years ago today counts on the collaboration of more than three hundred people, including parishioners, institutions, municipal services, port workers, the Church and others who identify with the cause.
Last Tuesday, April 18, the fishing boat that brought the seafood that will be delivered to the communities for the preparation of the more than fifty dishes that will be offered on April 29 and 30 in the twenty-seventh edition of the Gastronomic Fair of the Sea.
On April 24, Marcos Francisco Diaz Prado, current pastor of the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle, presented at a press conference the progress and preparations for this fair. He also emphasized the importance of this event in the support of the charitable works carried out by the parish.
