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Cartagena is preparing to celebrate your big day, that of the patroness, the Virgin of Charity, and marks the beginning of its unique Easter processions.
On March 30, Good Friday, will live with intensity and fervor the many activities and celebrations that will be developed in the early hours of the morning.
Start with an early exit processions in Spain, of the Brotherhood of Christ Relief, founded by the Duke of Veragua, which will start at four in the morning from the vicinity of the Old Cathedral, with a penitential procession will on the shoulders of the main streets of old town images of the Virgen de la Soledad del Consuelo and the Christ.
A real ordeal penitential reach the Church of Charity on the six o'clock.
There will be the first of the masses to this day full of emotions and feelings, will be dedicated to the patron.
The collection will take place at the first light of day, with the traditional Salve Cartagenera.
A TRADITION "N 250 YEARS THAT MEETS
Late in the morning, 10:20 am, will the Municipal Corporation from the Palace Hall carrying the banner of the City.
The gala procession will go to the church of Charity.
Shall consist of officers, trumpeters, mace-bearers and alguacilillos as marking the ancient ceremonial.
The deputies, dressed in their corporate attributes, roam the streets that separate the old town hall of the Church of Charity.
Once there, the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, during a Mass celebrated by Bishop Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, perform the Offering of the Ounce of Gold to the patron.
A tradition that meets 250 years.
It dates back to 1762 and materialized since the economic contribution of the City of Cartagena for the sick poor of the Holy and Royal Charity Hospital.
Prega "N IN THE CIRCUS THEATRE
Later, at 12.30 hours, will be the Teatro Circo most genuine act of exaltation of the Holy Week processions: the Proclamation.
This year for the second time in its history, borne by a woman, Rosario del Carmen Garcia Romero.
The first woman was delivered this proclamation by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, in 2009.
Barreiro opened the event to give way to Vice President of the Board of guilds, Sunday Bastida, who held the semblance of the herald and the Greater Nazarene 2012, Faith Love Deus.
After reading the proclamation, the mayor will honor the Nazarene Pregonera and Mayor, whose address will be terminated immediately.
Its development may still be delayed from 15 hours through the municipal website of Semana Santa ( www.semanasanta.cartagena.es ).
OFFERING TO THE VIRGIN
Throughout the day, the Cartagena will come to the church of Charity for his offering to the patron.
To do this, is arranged in the front of a prefabricated metal grid, indicating the bouquets of flowers that provide citizens, individually or in groups.
The bulk of the offering will take place in the afternoon with the massive participation of 50 groups and neighborhood councils, which comprise a parade of more than 2,000 people, mostly dressed in traditional costume Cartagena.
Next to them, numerous musical groups including Rondallas, Chorus and Dance groups, bands and Drum and Bugle Bands.
The parade made ​​its concentration in the Town Hall Square at 16:30 to begin its journey at 17:00, walking the streets Mayor, Puerta de Murcia, Sagasta, Tolosa Latour, Carmen, Santa Florentina, Park, Plaza de Lopez Pinto, Merganser and Church Charity.
They sing and dance, and flood with their bouquets and baskets of flowers on the altar and the Church as a token of affection and fervor to the Employer and the traditions and cultural values ​​of the municipality.
LATEST OF THE DAY Processions
The day will end as it began, with processions: one of the brotherhood California, the Holy Christ of Mercy and the Virgin of the Rosary, which will be nine at night from the Church of Santa Maria de Gracia, and another, the of the Virgin of Charity of Alum, also due out at nine at night from the parish council, bearing the image carved in 1951 by Jose Lozano Rock and was venerated in the basilica the disappeared town of tailings Refinery .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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