In "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," what phenomenon comes to town and distracts the townspeople from the "angel?"

For a while,
the angel is a tourist attraction. Although he doesn't do anything and is confused by all the
attention, people demand to see him, touch him, and beg him for miracles; Peylayo and Elisenda
take advantage of this and charge money, becoming wealthy. However:

...there arrived in the town the traveling show of the woman who had been changed into
a spider for having disobeyed her parents.
[...]
A spectacle like that, full
of so much human truth and with such a...