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Cartagena City Council held on Saturday, November 9, the Vote Borrasca Santa Catalina, thus fulfilling the promise made ​​318 years ago, when, according to the chronicles of the time, by intersection of Four Saints and the Virgen del Rosell, the city was saved from being razed.

The offering coincided with the festival's first patron saint of Cartagena, the Virgen del Rosell, and developed in the course of a religious ceremony by the vicar general of the diocese Juan Tudela, with the assistance of representatives of the main organizations and institutions, both civil and religious city.

The tradition of this vote goes back to the night of November 24, 1694, the day of St. Catherine in a particularly violent squall struck the city and was about to raze.

Miraculously it was not and was attributed their salvation to the prayers that went to Cartagena Four Saints and the Virgin del Rosell.

The Corporation decided to make every year an act of gratitude to the Four Saints and the Virgin del Rosell, who has been held since then, first in the old Cathedral and later at Santa Maria de Gracia.

Votive function, as this event is known, this year was made ​​councilor of Celebration, Florentina Garcia Vargas, who later laid a basket of flowers to the altar and kiss the relics of the Four Saints preserved in this church.

Also attending the ceremony were his fellow Team, C lara Heredia, Joseph Marotta and Juan Jose Martinez, by the socialist group, his spokesman, Charity Rives and Julio Nieto, and Citizens Movement spokesman, Jose Lopez.

After the Eucharist took place the proclamation of exaltation to the Virgen del Rosell, who read the older brother of the Brotherhood of Christ Relief, Manuel Martinez Guillen, who was on the origins of this title, which has been kept alive, first , in the Old Cathedral, and later, in Santa Maria de Gracia.

The celebration will end with a floral offering to the Virgen del Rosell by authorities, civil organizations, guilds, associations, religious associations, faithful and devotees in general.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena