Hundreds of Roman Catholic faithful gathered in the Peruvian capital,
Lima, on Saturday to honour the city's patron saint, Saint Rose of
Lima, on her feast day.
August 30 marks the Saint Rose of Lima Day in Peru and it is observed annually as a public holiday.
Believers gathered to pray before a Saint Rose statue at a church built on the ground where she lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Many wrote letters to the saint, asking for help or giving thanks, which they then dropped into a well in the grounds of the church.
A children's choir from Austria performed at the mass held in Saint Rose's honour.
Saint Rose was born Isabel Flores in Lima and was canonised in the Catholic Church in 1671.
She is also considered Latin America's patron saint because she was the first canonised saint in the region
August 30 marks the Saint Rose of Lima Day in Peru and it is observed annually as a public holiday.
Believers gathered to pray before a Saint Rose statue at a church built on the ground where she lived in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Many wrote letters to the saint, asking for help or giving thanks, which they then dropped into a well in the grounds of the church.
A children's choir from Austria performed at the mass held in Saint Rose's honour.
Saint Rose was born Isabel Flores in Lima and was canonised in the Catholic Church in 1671.
She is also considered Latin America's patron saint because she was the first canonised saint in the region
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