It has been said repeatedly that El Cobre, a small town of Santiago de Cuba, is the most visited of the island. The assertion may be true. There is the sanctuary where is venerated the statue of the Virgin of Charity, the Patroness of Cuba. For Catholics, as its name suggests, it is the virgin of love, mercy, compassion, grace and forgiveness. La Caridad is Oshun in the Yoruba pantheon, goddess of water and fertility, sexuality and gold, and also the love, the religion of African origin.

By optimism transmitted by their words and eyes, it looks like that whose birthday is the man and not the institution. Although views things in perspective, both are the same: Alberto Lescay Merencio and Caguayo Foundation up to their early 20's.

Wearing the peak of its imposing structure, the Holy Basilica Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Santiago de Cuba will host the September 22 His Holiness Pope Francisco, amid an environment marked along the 500 years of the former Santiago Villa for an extraordinary story to this city and the entire nation.
Note that the Pope will be in the exact spot where in 1522 was born the first cathedral in Cuba, which after its destruction gave space to another building, then a third, until in 1922 this fourth version, after having beaten fires, hurricanes and earthquakes with the same inherent toughness to the children of this land.