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The countdown to Holy Week in Cartagena has begun to run on the night of this Ash Wednesday, March 1, with the traditional Call.
Manuel Martínez, the president of the Junta de Brotherhoods and Brother of the Brotherhood of Socorro, was in charge of communicating to the mayor, José López, the decision taken in the general councils of the four brotherhoods, celebrated during the afternoon of this Wednesday , To take the processions to the street, one more year.
After them, they have gone to the Consistorial Palace, where the first mayor, the deputy mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and members of the municipal corporation, have received them.
Thus, the president of the Cofradias Board has addressed the hundreds of Cartagena gathered in the Town Hall square, which has ensured that the processions "form the most important part of Christian worship abroad" and is "the fruit of Popular fervor rooted in our city for centuries ", so" we can speak that we are owners of a week of passion that lasts 10 days, unequaled as none "since" Cartagena can not be understood without its Easter ", and has encouraged To "open the doors and windows to strangers and visitors, making our declaration of International Tourist Interest a reality."
He emphasized that the Holy Week in Cartagena "is not only light, order and flower, but a living example of an immense social effort that goes beyond the most emblematic week of the Cartagena calendar" and recalled that much of the revenues Cofradías is intended to try to alleviate the needs of the most needy, while referring to the work of the brothers, "hours and hours of work that are not seen, but are there."
He said that in Cartagena today, "men and women work equally, parade equally and shoulder equally" and that the preparations that begin this Wednesday will end "in the magical dawn of Friday Dolores, with the First procession of Spain ".
For his part, the mayor has valued "the effort and costly result of these magnificent thrones, standards, embroidery and clothing" and is that "being the best can only be achieved by seeking excellence, continued effort with the greatest dedication and all the love in the world".
For this reason, he assured, "my response can only be a joy for the announcement of the Elder Brothers, which becomes a thank you to all processionists for making year after year processions come out with all their light, order , Flower and music ".
After these words, he has delivered to Manuel Martínez the check that the City Council grants with an amount that is maintained at 183,000 euros and is intended for the celebration of Holy Week and has asked the Cartagena "to say with pride that you are Cartagena, because there are many reasons to be and Easter is one of them.
In conclusion, the mayor reiterated that "this year the processions will return to the streets of Cartagena," has encouraged attendees to accompany the Basilica of Charity to make the news known to the city and to carry out the traditional Offering to the patroness and has announced the traditional phrase with which the act is finished: "Music, and the street".
GINÉS FERNÁNDEZ TO PREGNATE PROCESSIONS ON SATURDAY
After the Call will come the official proclamation of the processions, which this year is ahead of the beginning of Lent, instead of Friday Dolores.
It will be next Saturday, March 4, at 8 pm, from the Auditorium of the UPCT.
The event organized by the City of Cartagena and the Guild of Holy Week, will have free entry until the capacity of about 570 localities, and can also be followed directly by internet through streaming on the municipal channel Youtube.
Its development will present novelties, such as the introduction of images and performances of processional musical fragments, by the Sauces Musical Association, which will prepare the speech of the crier Ginés Fernández Martínez.
The ceremony will be opened as usual by the mayor, who will give way to the president of the Junta de Cofradías, Manuel Martínez Guillén, to make a semblance of the town crier and the Nazarene.
As will be remembered Ginés Fernández Garrrido Ginés Fernandez Garrido, 62, married and father of a daughter, is a person very involved in the processions and religious traditions of the city.
At the moment it is Commissary of Protocol of the Brotherhood Marraja and in 2005 was chosen Processionista of the Year.
Belonging since its foundation, the Association of Students Christ of Medinaceli and Holy Women of the brotherhood marraja.
In addition, he is treasurer and responsible for protocol of the Governing Board of the Hospital de la Caridad, and it has also been usual for him to participate in the particular Ash Thursday, which every year organizes the Brotherhood of the Virgin of Charity Cartageneros in Madrid, State destined in the capital of Spain like military juridical.
For its part the nazarene major María Jesús Moreno García represents the characteristics and qualities that a woman requires in Holy Week.
Calfornia and sampedrista, of whose grouping has been waitress, is widow of the out butler californio and processionista of the year in 1997, Jose Ramón Bustillo Navia-Osorio.
After the proclamation, the mayor will deliver to the crier a plaque and a shield of gold of the city.
Later he will deliver the finishing touch to the Nazarene who will also receive from the hands of the previous Nazarene, Paquita Bueno a bouquet of flowers.
The act will conclude with the ever emotional words of the Nazarene
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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