A parish priest giving mass, shop assistants on Gran Vía and thousands of other workers who missed the eclipse: “We always attend to whoever comes”
Although millions of people in Spain turned out to witness the first such phenomenon in over a century on the Peninsula, many missed it due to work obligations.
When the eyes of all Spain were fixed on the horizon, Jesús Gil Sáez's eyes remained fixed on the flower of light that enters through the windows of the Church of San Juan del Hospital in Valencia. Between the months of April and September, he says, a "beautiful" visual effect occurs as the Sun rises over the rose window of the apse of the temple's dome.
The parish priest, who is said to be fond of astronomical phenomena, was unable to see the solar eclipse of August 12 due to his ecclesiastical duties. "While everyone was looking at the sky, I was uniting the earth with the sky in the Eucharist," he relates.
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