Happy Saint George's Day to everyone!

Look how great the Sant Jordi festival is, which every year passes "olimpicament" over all the news agendas in the country and reduces the day's events to the category of "rest of the day's news".

Tomorrow, the queues of people to regularize their status will be news, but not so much. Queues in front of the administration, where one has seen it. It couldn't have been known that this would happen. As a welcome, it's not badly conceived: in a country where teachers, doctors, farmers, the self-employed, applicants for aid to install solar panels, and so on to infinity complain about bureaucracy, the new citizens with full rights have also had to taste the bread that is given there. When it comes to queuing, there was no "national priority". Everyone the same: queues and unclear instructions.

There is also no national priority for celebrating Sant Jordi, which is for everyone who wants to enjoy it. And such a big festival — even if editorial interests inflate it and the Catalan communication system multiplies it — deserves respect, because it speaks of the society that invented it, and it speaks very well of it. So tomorrow is, among other things, a day of national self-esteem for Catalonia, always so watched, and now especially watched, lest we exceed the allowed grams of self-esteem in our blood. Sant Jordi gives society a formidable boost, which we must know how to take advantage of to complain less and gain more. Thousands of people will experience their first Sant Jordi in Catalonia tomorrow, and thousands of Catalans scattered around the world will experience it with longing. We remember them from afar with a rose.