On 1st May, the Sanctuary of S. Bento da Porta Aberta marked the Day of the Worker under the invocation of St Joseph “the Worker” with a Eucharist at 10:30 in the Basilica of S. Bento da Porta Aberta. Father José Luís parish priest of S. Pedro d’Arcos, Ponte de Lima (diocese of Viana do Castelo), visited the Sanctuary of S. Bento of the Open Door with the children of catechesis.
Thanking his “children” for their presence, the celebrant invoked St. Joseph as an example of humility and “model of all workers.”
At the end of the Eucharist, the rector of the Sanctuary of St. Benedict of the Open Door Father Adelino Costa e Sousa bore the blessing of the workers present.
