The publication by academic José Manuel Aguayo brings together in graphic form (comics) the vision of Andacollo students regarding the Religious Festival of the Virgin.

Various copies of the book “Graphic Memory of a Religious Fervor”, by the academic of the Department of Arts and Letters of the University of La Serena, Mg. José Manuel Aguayo, were received by the Chilean Culture Extension Service (SEREC) and will be sent by said entity to prestigious universities abroad.

SEREC, a documentation service that serves the Latin American collections of foreign university libraries, with which it has maintained contact for more than 30 years, reported that the copies received will be sent to different universities, including Yale University, Princeton University , Harvard University, Notre Dame University, University of California, Berkeley, San Diego, New York University, Texas University, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, among others, whose libraries develop topics related to Chile, in different areas of national activity: culture, philosophy , social sciences, economics, law, literature, religion, science, history and geography, literature, religion, art and architecture.

This work - in whose prologue the academic and Director of the Department of Education of the ULS, Dr. Jaime Montes, participates -, brings together in graphic form (comics) the vision of the students of the Pedro Regalado Videla de Andacollo High School regarding the religious festival of his commune, whose Chinese dances were declared by UNESCO (2014) as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. These young people were supported by students from the Design program of the higher education institution and the establishment's teachers.

The book “Graphic Memory of a Religious Fervor” is part of the winning initiatives of the 2017 Environmental Linkage Project Contest, of the Academic Vice-Rector's Office and the Directorate of Environmental Linkage and Extension of the state campus.