Day 2 in Barcelona – Sunday – was a walking day.   And I mean, walking.  The morning was spent walking around, getting lost, and enlisting the help of the wonderful Sunday-morning crowd one meets in most large cities.  I was trying to get to Mass and finally ended there.  Details in my video.  The rest of the time was spent waiting, waiting, waiting, and walking, walking, walking, in my role as tourist.  In Barcelona and the Western Hemisphere, Summer is officially over on September 21.  But, in Barcelona, a week long celebration begins, in honor of the city’s Patroness – Nuestra Señora de la Merced (in Spanish) – and they say it in Catalan, but I ran across various versions and I do not want to offend anyone so I won’t write it here.  But is sounds sort of like the Spanish.  Here is a link to a PDF file I created with some information – and weblinks so you can know the source – about Our Lady of Mercy, generally, and as Patroness of Barcelona.  But first, try out my video, which again, does not pretend to be “professional.”  But I hope you will get an idea of what I saw and heard Sunday, September 21, 2014 while in Barcelona.

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