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The Council of Culture and Portavocía has elevated to the Governing Council the granting of a subsidy of 40,000 euros to the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Santísimo and Real Cristo del Socorro for the restoration of the Socorro Chapel of the Old Cathedral of Cartagena.
The recovery project, which will be financed almost 50 percent by the Community, is approved by the technicians of the General Directorate of Cultural Property and consists of improving the lining of the external walls of the chapel to solve the problems of humidity Of the property.
The conservation and maintenance intervention planned in the Chapel of Socorro includes the conditioning of the dressing room, through the restoration of the elements in wood that compose it.
Likewise, the exterior finishes will be waterproofed and improved.
This chapel is the second one located on the side of the Epistle of the church of Santa María de Cartagena, known as Antigua Cathedral, declared a National Monument in 1931, a figure of protection equivalent to that of Cultural Interest since 1985.
Next to the Chapel of the Four Saints, it is one of the elements that is best preserved, thanks in part to previous works of repair and restoration.
The Socorro Chapel is owned by the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Holy and Real Cristo del Socorro and was built in 1691 as a thank you for the healing of a son of the Duke of Veragua.
The penitential confraternity of the Cristo del Socorro was founded at the end of the seventeenth century and is currently composed of two groups: the Blessed Virgin of the Solitude of Consolation and the Holy and Real Cristo del Socorro, the titular image of the brotherhood.
Source: CARM
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