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End a Holy Week in Cartagena damaged by rain.
The suspension of the last of the passionate parades, that of the Risen One, as a consequence of the precipitations, has closed a year that will undoubtedly be marked in the history of the processions of the city.
About eight o'clock in the morning, the Brotherhood of the Risen One published on their social networks the decision to suspend the joyous procession that was to leave at 10:30 am, in anticipation of rain.
Later he invited the people of Cartagena to go to the Church of Santa María, between 10:30 and 3:00 pm, to visit the thrones with flowers that had been prepared to parade through the streets of the Historical Quarter and that they could not do it;
and to participate from 12 in a via lucis and the cante of the last salve of Holy Week to the Virgin of Beautiful Love.
As it happened with the marrajos, numerous processionists, brothers and the general public went to the temple, among them the delegate of the Government in the Region of Murcia, Francisco Jiménez;
the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón;
and the elder brother of the Resurrected One, Ramón Pérez.
Throughout the ceremony, faces of emotion were seen, especially when the Virgin and the titular, the Risen Christ, were carried on their shoulders, outside of Santa María, preceded by the Honor Squad of the Brotherhood, where hundreds awaited them. of people who sang the last salve and the picket of the Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment 73, with whose parade the act concluded.
It is the fourth procession that has been altered this year by the rains.
The Marraja Brotherhood has been the most affected, as it had to advance and hasten the Procession of the Meeting in the early hours of Good Friday and suspend those of Good Friday and Holy Saturday.
To which has also been added today the suspension of the procession of the resurrected.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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