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A devotee placed a candle to the Virgen del Valle as a symbol of prayer in her intercession to god, that her prayer reaches God.

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Newsreel 1955. Report on the flights of the Catalina flying boats of the Naval Aviation Service from Biak to the Wisselmeren, Papua New Guinea. The airplanes transport people and goods to Dutch outposts.

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