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The square of San Ginés de la Jara, emblematic where there are them, oozes history through all its pores, the same that alone elevates you to the past times of that deep Cartagena that one day we thought we lost.
And is that talking about this corner of our city is talking among other issues of the Brotherhood that bears the name of Our Patron Saint, and therefore a chronology that tells us about the oldest active religious institution in the entire city.
Its pages, which go beyond the sixteenth century, hide a past yet to be rediscovered, and among these its most recent decades, those that start after the end of our Civil War and that curiously we can qualify as one of its most unknown past.
Beyond the emblematic figure of Luis Angosto Lapizburú, first Elder Brother after the re-founding of the Brotherhood in 1917, we find other names such as those of Manuel Zamora and José Moncada, brief terms that gave way on August 20, 1946 to the presidency of Joaquín Moncada Moreno.
It is here that the Plaza de San Ginés de la Jara once again intensifies the continuous line of the remembered Luis Angosto in favor of the most disadvantaged children.
We observe how on Sunday, August 25 of that same year, the festival of San Ginés, at six in the morning a target will be played by the band of drums and bugles of the Red Cross, touring the Plaza and other streets in the neighborhood.
Two hours later, and with the saint of the niche as a witness, the Bar Sol will serve a breakfast to about one hundred children from Faquineto, Concepcion and the rest of the Pescadores neighborhood.
Its social tint is evident and even more the strong roots of the leaders of the Brotherhood of San Ginés towards that humble and simple Cartagena that once slept in the shadow of the Cerro de la Concepción.
While looking at the monastery annexed to Mount Miral, the memory of our beloved and ill-fated Cathedral is still present, and that of a chapel, that of the Four Saints and Virgin of Rosell, which once housed the missing stature of the Cartagena Patron.
That is why the Solemn Mass and corresponding talk in honor of the Saint will be held as a rule in the Church of Charity at ten in the morning.
The celebrations of the following years will be similar, highlighting their own names like those of Rafaela Martínez or Sandalio Bernal with their gifts and donations to the little ones during the traditional breakfasts.
The numbers of children invited in the square during the festival of San Ginés will increase as the years go by.
This is the case of the year 1952, which will reach 255 breakfasts, consisting of a sandwich of cheese and sausage, buns and coffee with milk, all paid for by the merchants and neighbors of the city at the behest among others of the brothers of San Ginés .
Names such as Juan Viñas and Orencio Bernal, together with Big Brother Joaquín Moncada, deserve their particular mention here.
It is also fair to highlight the figure of the noncommissioned officer Diego Reynaldo, who for some years led the Band of Bugles and Drums of the Red Cross, announcing with his target that the festival of San Ginés de la Jara one more year had dawned in Cartagena.
In 1956 the numbers of children present in our beloved corner rose to 305 breakfasts, organized by presenting vouchers.
It was the case of numerous children who did not have them, but this was not an apex for the brothers of San Ginés to serve all the children who were in the Plaza.
And it is that despite the years of absence of the remembered Luis Angosto, his mark with the most disadvantaged population was always present among his brothers.
That day all the children who were there were able to have their corresponding bologna and cheese sandwich, bun and coffee with milk.
Joaquín Moncada maintained this tradition until the same year of his death in 1963. With him, the Brotherhood and the celebrations of the Plaza de San Ginés de la Jara, an unrepeatable place that waits in this new era to return to see sunrise as In the past those festivities of targets, chiquillería and breakfasts.
And of course, with the watchful eye from his niche of the Patron Saint of Cartagena and a smile on his lips ...
JOSÉ LUIS CARRALERO ALARCÓN
Chronicler of the Brotherhood of San Ginés de la Jara of the City of Cartagena
Source: José Luis Carralero
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