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The festive atmosphere and rosemary I seized on Saturday Port, where the commemoration of the choice of San Gines as Patron of Cartagena were held, with crossing Santo by sea and landing of the image on the Real Scale, to arrive, accompanied by some two hundred pilgrims, to the gates of the Palace Hall.
There, in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, they received the mayor, Jose Lopez, who, in a symbolic act, delivered to San Ginés of the Keys of the City, joining ceremony followed the procession that went in procession to the Plaza de San Gines, an entourage also joined Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, the councilors of the government team Francisco Calderon, Juan Pedro Torralba, Ricardo Segado, Obdulia Gómez, Isabel García, Carmen Martin and Maria Jose Soler, as well as other elected representatives of the municipal corporation, as Antonio Calderon and Florentina Garcia and other authorities, is the case of Director of Public Works, Francisco Barnabas, and those responsible for the Brotherhood of Romeros of San Ginés de la Jara, who organized the event.
Once the image came to the Plaza de San Gines, witnessed by the attendees rest of the staging of the historical moment of the election of the saint as the patron of Cartagena, which occurred on April 27, 1677, where an Epidemic people city ​​invoked the employer to mitigate its effects.
The day was completed with the blessing of the new image in the San Francisco square after which took place unaofrenda floral and a hymn was released in honor of the saint, after which the image is moved to the Basilica of Charity where it will all week so you can be honored by the faithful who come to the temple.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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