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With the procession of Cristo del Socorro, and the subsequent music, festive atmosphere and travel of members of the Municipal Corporation by going to the church of Charity have started this morning, the celebrations of Good Friday, the day of the patron saint of Cartagena .
However, the big day in the city has been even more special.
This morning he celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Offering of the Ounce of Gold and also the Cartagena have received from the hand of the Bishop of the diocese, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, the announcement that the Vatican has already granted the title of minor basilica of the Church of Charity.
The Municipal Corporation has come out at 10.20 am the Palace Hall in the direction of the church of Charity.
As usual, the councilors, dressed in their corporate attributes, have walked the streets that separate the old town hall of the headquarters of the patron saint of the city.
I spend at the Mass, officiated by the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, it has highlighted the role of municipal authorities, each Good Friday, during the act of donating the Ounce of Gold, a certain amount of money to Charity Hospital to help the sick poor in the center.
This time, the amount was the same as last year: 32,000 euros.
Shortly before delivering the check to the brother of the Hospital de la Caridad, Jose Vera, the mayor has paid tribute to the act of the Ounce of Gold, who turns 250 years. In these two and a half centuries, Cartagena has fallen and been raised on many occasions.
But this custom has survived, highlighted the first municipal authority.
Also, Barreiro had words for the unemployed and families suffering the effects today of the crisis: Your problems are our problems and we must address them.
After the ceremony, the elder brother of the Holy and Royal Charity Hospital, Jose Vera, thanked the City Council a donation and thanked him by giving a picture of the Virgin of Charity.
Prega "N OF EASTER
The events of the morning have concluded at the Teatro Circo.
There, for the second time in the history of Holy Week, the discourse has read a woman, Rosario del Carmen Garcia Romero. The first woman to utter it was the mayor Pilar Barreiro in 2009.
Before giving the floor to the herald, Barreiro has championed the role of guilds fighting for that Easter succeed, something difficult in times of crisis.
After his speech, he has had to turn to vice president of the Board of guilds, Sunday Bastida, who has been very pleased to learn of the announcement that the Church Charity and is a basilica and has also made ​​a brief sketch the herald of this year.
Meanwhile, Rosario del Carmen García Romero, has emphasized during his opening speech at the new blood that slowly take over in the fraternities and getting, with enthusiasm and effort to take forward the processions.
Also, the herald has made ​​a literary journey through all the days of Holy Week and, as she herself has said, could not avoid being carried away by the passion that joins their group, the Blessed Virgin of Mercy.
The event has completed the delivery, by the mayor to herald the Shield of the City and an Accreditation Plaque, a gesture that was repeated to address the Mayor Nazarene, Faith Love Deus, which has given a pin and other accrediting board.
In turn, Faith Love Deus, a native of Galicia, thanked the appointment and in a brief but intense speech he joked with the appointment of which have been delivered today I do not know if I'm going to die when you are done Easter, but I drive the bitterness.
The name could not be better than that of Greater Nazarene.
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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