Today in 1947, 76 years ago: in León (Nicaragua), the Gritería Chiquita is celebrated for the first time, on the initiative of Bishop Isidro Augusto Oviedo y Reyes, to calm the eruption of the Cerro Negro volcano that had been active for two weeks, and that since then is celebrated in that city on the eve of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

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