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As an incontestable reality, the old walls of the monastery of San Ginés de la Jara mourn its misery and with it the pages of a legendary story yet to be rediscovered ... Not far from the shores of the Mar Menor, Cartagena looks to August 25 as one of the most emblematic dates of its liturgical calendar, and that is that on that day our city, its Natural Region and numerous municipalities and parishes of Spain celebrate the onomastics of the saint hermit.
San Ginés de la Jara, Patron of Cartagena ... Only its name invites beyond its own religious convictions to delve into one of the most emblematic and mysterious traditions of this Mediterranean corner.
Mount Miral and its hermitages, the Monastery, our old Cathedral and even the old arciprestal of Santa María de Gracia -allende hermitage-, house chapters of an incredible history that does not stop to surprise us.
It is in this last place where we find one of the episodes where the documentary treasure of the Brotherhood of San Ginés de la Jara -which until now has had its testimonial roots in the 16th century- refers to a historic agreement with our beloved and sister Cofradía California.
The reason: the dividing wall that adjoins between the chapels of both groups located in the sacred precinct of the street of the Air, where the young Brotherhood of the Prendimiento, almost finished the construction of its sacred corner (1760), pretended to realize a temporary dressing room for the Virgin of the First Pain.
It is in those moments Brother Major of the Brotherhood of San Ginés Francisco Balanza and depository of the same Agustín de Bas, both neighbors of the district extrawalls of San Antonio Abbot.
The Brotherhood of the Patron Saint of Cartagena, mostly made up of farmers, was at that time the owner by right of the space of a chapel (erected with its own funds around 1730) in said church, since it was established before 1567 in the primitive hermitage of Our Lady of Grace.
And here is where we find this fabulous testimony, collected by Maestre y Montojo (2004), which we outline below.
The document, dated April 18, 1758, reads as follows:
"It has been agreed with him that in the thickness of the dividing wall make a niche or dressing room for the Virgin of the said Brotherhood, under the quality that is responsible for that if the said work or arch that must be executed, the Chapel has some damage of San Ginés, has to repair at his expense the Brotherhood of the Prendimiento, as well as to deliver to the grantors 375 real of fleece, in whose amount has been appreciated in the middle of the said wall that must occupy in the hollow of said dressing room or niche, leaving to the benefit of the said Brotherhood of Seizure all the stone that comes out of it, and as the said amount of 375 reales of fleece receive it from Benito Roche's present in gold, silver and fleece coins give it to said brotherhood letter of payment in it ".
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Its text says it all and enriches even more the strong historical-cultural roots that the current Brotherhood of San Ginés de la Jara holds with Cartagena, presided by its Big Brother Victor Navarro Iñiguez.
A Confraternity of the 21st century qualified as one of the oldest in active -equally speaking- of the Spanish Levante, reality that for justice begins to be recognized in our environment.
And it is here that the Brotherhood of our Patron Saint wanting to commemorate the centuries-old ties that unite him with the Brotherhood of California, wanted him to be his Elder Brother Juan Carlos de la Cerra Martinez, who this August 24th made the Proclamation of Honor addressed to Our Mr. San Ginés in the parish of the neighborhood that bears his name.
Come from here, making Patrón, making Cartagena, our total gratitude to the Breeding Brothers.
And from our interior we live more than ever the holiday of Saturday 25. Surely the look of an old monastery will be watching us, and who knows -although for a few moments- if with a smile ...
JOSÉ LUIS CARRALERO ALARCÓN
Cofrade of San Ginés de la Jara
Source: Agencias
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