The Municipal Festivities in honor of Nossa Senhora de Antime, are held annually on the second Sunday of July, with great cultural entertainment and a program for all tastes. These festivities have a diversified program that includes music, folklore, parades, luminous march and other moments. But Sunday is, for many, the most symbolic day of these festivities, when the procession in honor of Our Lady of Antime takes place, attracting thousands of faithful, in a unique moment, full of faith and emotion. Early in the morning, the Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows leaves Fafe towards Antime and the Procession of Our Lady of Mercy leaves Antime for Fafe. The two images meet, about an hour later, on the S. José Bridge and go together towards the New Church, in Fafe.

It was in the place of Outeiro das Freiras that, one day, the image of Santa Maria appeared, it is not known to whom. Immediately the peoples of Antime and Fafe pleaded for its possession, claiming, each one, the right that they had. At a certain point in the matter, they agreed that Our Lady would belong to the village where, spontaneously and without government, an oxcart would drive, carrying the image. The fact is that those from Antime profited from this suggestion, who shortly afterwards tried to build a chapel dedicated to the Virgin. Since then, Santa Maria has added that of that parish to her name, but she is also called Senhora do Sol, because farmers resort to her when they need good weather.
Now another version. In Outeiro das Freiras, as this designation seems to infer, there was once a convent, whose chaplain was the abbot of the parish. Now, when that monastic residence was suppressed, the image of Our Lady was handed over to the parish priest, with the obligation to make a procession with it every year from Antime to Fafe. The order was fulfilled and on the second Sunday of July she went there, with plenty of accompaniment, to visit the City.

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