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The Good Friday Cartagena held their popular patron saint, the Virgin of Charity, with an amalgam of events and delegations, which will form an intense day which also will begin their Holy Week processions, declared of international tourist interest.
Thus, the three-thirty in the morning will start from around Antigua Cathedral, one of the first processions 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 is accompanied only by a dull drum and prayer stations along the main streets of the Old Quarter.
It pictures of the Virgen de la Soledad del Consuelo Moreno Christ and processions.
Specially created using first stops will be at the official patron of Cartagena, Rosell Virgin in Santa Maria de Gracia, and later about six in the morning, before the popular patron saint, the Virgin of Charity, in the Basilica of the same name.
His collection is scheduled for 7.45 hours.
OFFERING OUNCE GOLD
The busy day will continue at 10.10 hours, with the output of the Municipal Corporation from the Town Hall to the Basilica of Charity.
The solemn procession will be accompanied by police gala, trumpeters, and alguacilillos maceros.
In it, the youngest member of the Corporation, Councilwoman Ruth Collins will carry the banner of the city.
At 10.30 am Mass will begin honoring Charity, who will officiate the bishop of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes, and in which the mayor, Pilar Barreiro, comply with the tradition of offering of an ounce of gold the Patron, which dates from 1762 and symbolizing economic contribution made each year in the city of Cartagena for the poor and sick of the Holy Royal Charity Hospital.
PREGA "N EN EL TEATRO CIRCO
Later, at 12:30 pm, the Proclamation of Easter will be held at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, which this time is payable by the bishop of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes.
In the event the appointment of Nazarene High to María José García Roche will also be given.
The event will be public and admission is open to as many people want to attend, without further limitations than the capacity of the theater.
At the end of it to the audience with the publication of the proclamation, published under the auspices of the San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) was giving away.
The proclamation will be also broadcast live on the internet through the website semanasanta.cartagena.es , the portal for processions in Cartagena and also this year will see live and recorded processions through the collaboration of the local radio station for TELECARTAGENA cable.
(The media will be provided with audio jack for monitoring from the intrigue of the theater, as in previous years. To televisions to request in advance a power sound in the stalls or the already edited recording will also be provided act on DVD).
FLORAL OFFERING TO CHARITY
Under the organization of the council of Celebration, all day, Cartagena can drive up to the church of Charity for their Floral offering to the patron.
As has been happening for years the offerings can be made individually, throughout the day, or in a group through the procession will depart in the afternoon.
Those who choose to do so individually should carry bouquets of flowers, preferably six to eight carnations, white, red or pink, without wrapping or cellophane.
Municipal employees are instructed to collect the flowers from the morning and go to compose the mosaic that will be enabled at the entrance of the temple.
All enlivened until one o'clock, with music of a saxophone octet of the Conservatory of Music in Cartagena.
At 17 hours will start the procession of the floral offering from the Town Hall Square in the direction of the Basilica of Charity with the following route: Main Street, Plaza de San Sebastián, Puerta de Murcia, Sagasta, Carmen, Santa Florentina, Park, Square López Pinto, Merganser and Basilica of Charity.
52 associations and groups of districts and county totaling more than 1,500 people will participate in the event, which will also join those who want it, wearing the typical costume Cartagena, preferably.
Among the participating groups are pipe bands, bugles and drums, choirs and dance groups, and gangs rondallas Campo de Cartagena, who shall be deposited with the patron and the flowers that will be compiling a floral blanket around the patron .
This year there will be free novelty chairs along the entire route of the procession, according to the contract award to the company Chairs Gil Morales SL
LATEST PROCESIONES OF THE DAY
The day will end as it began, with processions.
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: Duque, Plaza de San Ginés, San Francisco, Plaza San Francisco, Arch Caridad, San Vicente, Plaza de López Pinto, Merganser, Charity, Plaza de la Inmaculada, Duke and Plaza de la Merced (south and east).
The second will be the first procession of the California brotherhood: the Holy Christ of Mercy and the Virgin of the Rosary, which will start at nine o'clock from the Church of Santa María de Gracia with the usual route of other processions, passing first through the Air Street, Cannon and Mayor.
The third is that of the Virgin of Charity of Alum, also due out nine in the night from the parish of San Roque, carrying the image carved in 1951 by José Lozano Rock and venerated in the Basilica desparecida village Refinery tailings.
ALL INFORMACIÃ "N ON THE WEB AND THE MÃ" VIL
Of all these events and processions, as well as the rest of Holy Week, offers complete information for citizens and visitors in the municipal portal processions ( semanasanta.cartagena.es ), which this year has been renovated with a new look that prevail in the pictures, with more than 700 photographs, and, in order to show the most attractive of our shows passion.
The new site has been redesigned using Bootstrap, open source technology for creating interfaces that automatically adapt to the screen size of the devices, whether personal computers or mobile devices such as tablets and mobile phones.
Among other advantages, this new adaptive design avoids the need to make different versions of a web, one for each device type.
It also improves handling and premium navigation and above all the look, making it more pleasant and attractive.
One of the objectives has been to encourage the presence and use of this page on mobile devices, which currently account for 20 percent of the registered visitors.
The new design will also allow you to see through the mobile live coverage of the processions of Holy Week, which this year will provide the city of Cartagena in collaboration with the local TV station TELECARTAGENA cable.
The site offers schedules and routes of the processions of this year provided by the guilds, as well as acts of Lent leading, along with links, Easter marches and warning notices and proclamations, speeches from the mid 80 century past.
Its redesign was carried out by the Communications Office and the City of Cartagena Protocol.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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