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A hundred students fill the auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theater to hear the coordinator of the Cante de las Minas Festival, Manuel Navarro, and the professor Esteban Bernal.

The San Antonio Catholic University has held the third edition of the seminar "Religion and Flamenco" at the Roman Theater Museum in Cartagena to review the link between this art and Christianity.

Specifically, a hundred students have filled the auditorium of the Palacio Pascual de Riquelme to listen to a conference by Manuel Navarro, flamencologist and coordinator of the Cante de las Minas Festival of La Unión, and another from the professor Esteban Bernal Aguirre, multidisciplinary plastic artist, adult catechist and regular collaborator of the unionense festival.

The coordinator of the day and professor of Humanities at the UCAM, Álvaro Berrocal, stressed that "these are two cultural realities linked to the Spanish idiosyncrasy, because Spain has been a nation that is understood through its history and its Catholic faith. and flamenco has been its channel of expression through popular culture throughout the peninsula, even when Spanish culture has spread to America and other countries, they have always gone together, and Spain has a reality very much linked to its folklore and its traditions so there is also an anthropological issue, as well as a deeply rooted symbology ".

Manuel Navarro, for his part, focused his intervention on one of the cultural manifestations that link Catholicism with flamenco, such as the Flemish masses, beyond the carols or the saetas.

For this he made a tour of the different flamenco masses, why they arise and in what context.

Also, Esteban Bernal recalled that "he who prays singing prays twice".

Finally, the Academic Director of the UCAM Cartagena Campus, Juan Alfonso García, stressed that "this University has always strengthened the link between flamenco and religion, for example, by collaborating with the Cartagena Saetas Competition, promoted by the Portapasos Association of the Virgin of Mercy ".

Source: UCAM Cartagena