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The Good Friday will be the big day of Cartagena with the celebration of the feast of the Virgin of Charity: a day full of entertainment events and the popular patron while marking the start of one of the s emanate holy ten days longer in Spain, declared of international tourist interest.
So at half past three in the morning depart from the vicinity of the Old Cathedral, one of the first processions of Spain: the Cross of the Brotherhood of Christ Relief.
Founded by the Duke of Veragua in the seventeenth century, it is an austere penitential procession that accompanies only a muffled drum and prayer stations along the main streets of the Old Quarter.
It procesionan images of the Virgen de la Soledad and the Christ of Consuelo Moreno.
Especially touching are the first stops at the Virgen del Rosell, in Santa Maria de Gracia, and then about six in the morning, before the Virgin of Charity, in the Basilica of the same name.
His collection is scheduled at 7.45 hours.
OFFERING ounce of gold
The intense day of Good Friday 10.10 hours to continue, with the output of the Municipal Corporation from the Palace Hall to the Basilica of Charity.
The solemn procession will be led by the banner of the city, accompanied by police gala, trumpeters, and alguacilillos maceros, as is traditional.
At 10.30 hours will begin mass in honor of Charity, who will officiate the bishop of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, in which the mayor, Pilar Barreiro, honor the tradition of the Offering of an ounce of gold to the Employer, which dates from 1762 and symbolizing the economic contribution made ​​each year in the city of Cartagena for the sick and poor of the Holy Royal Charity Hospital.
Prega "N at the Teatro Circo
Later, at 12:30 pm and held the Proclamation of Easter in the New Theatre Circus, which this time will be given by José Manuel Martínez Rosique, pastor of the Neighborhood of San Ginés and chaplain of Christ Relief .
The event also will be given the appointment of Nazarene Clemente High to Francisca Martinez.
The CTO will be to the public and admission is open to as many people want to attend, no limitations other than the capacity of the theater.
At the end of the same attendees will be greeted with the cry, 2013 edition, published under the auspices of the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM).
(The media will have audio jack for monitoring from the intrigue of the theater, as in previous years. Should also be given to broadcasters who request in advance a sound decision in the stalls or recording and edited the act on DVD).
FLORAL OFFERING A CHARITY
Under the organization of the council of Celebration, all day, the Cartagena may visiting the church of Charity for his offering to the patron.
As has been the case for years offerings may be made ​​individually throughout the day, or in groups through the courtship of the wreath, afternoon.
Those who choose to do so individually must carry bouquets of carnations six to eight preferably in white, red or pink, without wrapping or cellophane.
Municipal employees are instructed to collect the flowers from the Morning composing the mosaic that will be enabled at the entrance of the temple.
All enlivened until one in the afternoon, with music of a saxophone quartet and a string of the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena.
At 17.30 hours the procession will leave the wreath from the Town Hall towards the Basilica of Charity with a distance shorter than other years to speed.
Run along Calle Mayor, Plaza de San Sebastián, Puerta de Murcia, Santa Florentina, Park, Plaza López Pinto, Serreta and Basilica of Charity.
50 neighborhood associations and groups and delegations totaling about 1,500 people will participate in the event, which also will join those who want it, wearing traditional dress Cartagena, preferably.
Among the participating groups are bands of bagpipes, bugles and drums and choirs and dance groups, acting at the patron and deposited with the flowers that will be compiling a floral blanket around the patron.
LATEST processions DAY
The intense day will end as it began, with processions .
The first, the Stations of the Cross of Christ of the Divine Mercy, due out at six in the evening from the Plaza de la Merced with the following schedule: Duke, Plaza de San Ginés, San Francisco, Plaza San Francisco, Arch Charity, St. Vincent, Plaza de López Pinto, Serreta, Charity, Plaza de la Inmaculada, Duke and Plaza de la Merced (South and East).
The second will be the first of the brotherhood California: the Holy Christ of Mercy and the Virgin of the Rosary, which will start at nine o'clock from the Church of Santa Maria de Gracia with the rest of the usual route of processions, first passing through the street Air, Cannon and Mayor.
The other is that of the Virgin of Charity of Alumbres will also nine at night from the parish of San Roque, carrying the image carved in 1951 by José Lozano Rock and is venerated in the Basilica desparecida village Escombreras Refinery.
All information 'N on the Web and in OM "VIL
Of all these events and processions, and the rest that will happen over Easter, it provides complete information for citizens and visitors to the portal http://semanasanta.cartagena.es keeping the Department of Communication and Cartagena Protocol City Council with the cooperation of the Holy Week Brotherhoods and through this web version adapted for mobile phones and tablets made by the Data Processing Center (DPC) of the City of Cartagena.
This site in Spanish and English, offering updates on i nformation processions of Holy Week 2013 and is automatically activated depending on the device used.
Together with data from the four brotherhoods, itineraries, schedules and composition of each of the processions, the user can download pictures and videos from the shows and listen to popular procession marches.
For tourists it also provides information about museums, food and places to visit, as well as current news related to Easter.
Also notable is the live broadcast and recorded to perform the acts and major processions, by courtesy TELECARTAGENA signal.
New this year, the website has included two new sections in which different cartels collect Easter Cartagena, since 1970, as well as editions of the hawkers pronounced since 1988.
Last year the website agreed Easter in its various forms around 58,930 people, reached 17,372 visits relaying section processions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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