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Cartagena is already preparing for the final stretch of its Holy Week with numerous processions in the urban center, neighborhoods and councils that will remember the passion, death and resurrection of Christ.
This Wednesday, March 28, the Magna Procession of the Capture of Christ, of the Cofradía California, is celebrated and will begin at 9:00 p.m. from the Church of Santa María de Gracia.
Also in La Aljorra there will be a procession of Holy Wednesday this March 28, with departure at 22:00 hours.
Holy Thursday begins with the General Chapter of the Buds, which will be held in the Auditorium of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) of the Campus of the Muralla del Mar. It is a meeting of the brothers of the Marraja Brotherhood in which They reaffirm their condition as mako shark.
Next, there will be the relief of the Roman soldiers before the Christ of Ecce Homo, where the Californian soldiers honor the Christ at 7:15 p.m. at the door of the Church of Santa María de Gracia.
On this same day, the procession of Cristo de los Pescadores will take place at Cabo de Palos at 8:30 p.m.
It is a very special sailor parade in which the processionists take to the streets with symbols related to the sea and the people who work there.
In addition, the Cofradía California celebrates this Holy Thursday at 22:00 the solemn Procession of Silence and the Most Holy Christ of the Miners, the last of the processions of this brotherhood.
Once you return to the Church of Santa María de Gracia, you will sing a miserere to the Ecce Homo and a Salve from Cartagena to the collection of the Virgin.
Towards 00:05 hours of that same night, with the arrival of Good Friday, the parade of maras grenadiers will begin with their Parade of Good Friday that announces the procession of the Encounter in the Plaza de la Merced.
Towards 3:05 am the first of the processions will leave the Church of Santa María de Gracia, that of the Verónica Woman;
at 3:10, from the ETS of Industrial Engineers, the Procession of Our Father Jesus of Medinaceli;
at 3:30 am, from the Fish Market of Santa Lucía, the Procession of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno;
and, finally, at 3:45 am, from Santa María de Gracia, the Procession of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows.
The Encounter between the Sorrowful Virgin and Jesus Nazareno will take place around 5:30 in the Plaza de la Merced (or Plaza del Lago).
Once the Encounter is held, the four processions will march together towards the Church of Santa María de Gracia to pray a Salve to the Virgin around 8:00 am.
Once the night of Good Friday arrives, at 9:00 p.m., there will be a procession of the Holy Burial of Christ, of the Marraja Brotherhood.
In addition, at 22:00 hours the processions of La Aljorra and Los Belones will leave.
That same night, at 00:00 hours, the procession of Las Ánimas de La Palma will begin.
On Holy Saturday, at 7:00 p.m., the procession of the Vera Cruz will start from the Church of Santa María de Gracia, the most modern and austere of the Marraja Brotherhood, in which the electricity of the hachotes disappears to leave step to the wax.
In addition, at 7:10 pm, the Procession of the Holy Women of the Marraja Brotherhood will begin from the rectory of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (San Diego Street).
Finally, on Easter Sunday, at 10:30 am Holy Week will come to an end with the Procession of the Risen Christ, which will come from the Church of Santa Maria de Gracia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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