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The image of the popular patron saint of Cartagena, the Virgin of Charity, will start Sunday, April 19, for the sixth time in its history in procession through the streets of the City.
What will you do to commemorate the Diocesan Year of Charity with a later Mass on the esplanade of the Port.
All citizens who wish may take her shoulders.
The Virgin is at 16.00 at the door of the Basilica to begin your journey to reach the esplanade of the harbor, where the bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Jose Manuel Lorca Planes officiate a Mass accompanied by a hundred priests.
In addition, during the tour, any cartagenero may carry the Virgin of Charity, provided they have the required clothing, as well as demonstrating at a press conference held a few days the elder brother of the Board of Charity Hospital, José Vera ago;
treasurer, Ginés Fernández and the rector of Charity, Francis Montesinos.
The Virgin tour the Charity, Duke, San Francisco, San Miguel, Air and Canyon streets to the harbor esplanade where the bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena officiate a Mass.
It will be at 17:00 when Mass begins and is expected to attract about 160 priests approximately, of which about nine accompany the bishop of the diocese in celebration.
Also participating enlivening the celebration choir of Charity.
Near 2.5000 parishioners from all parts of the Region will reach the port city to see the Virgin of Charity.
Are expected to reach about 50 buses.
It will be at 19.30 when you finish the act, and the procession back, taking a longer route starts: Streets Mayor, Puerta de Murcia, Santa Florentina, Juan XXIII, San Juan, Merganser and Charity.
During the tour of Cartagena will have 2,500 chairs to watch the procession of the patron.
The throne on which will cover the Holy Virgin is the ancient throne I used the grouping of the Apparition of Jesus the risen Jesus, who in 2011 was donated to the board of the government of Charity Hospital to make use of it in all its outputs.
Two ensembles accompany the throne, and in the morning the city center will be entertained by the 1900 Cartagena group that will be a parade on gay issues touching 12.00.
And accompanying the Virgin group will be the willows.
The portapasos have been collected from the four pasionarias brotherhoods, and the Virgen de la Soledad Mount Calvary, another piece to the Artillery and a small stretch of 70 meters to the Governing Board and authorities.
But whosoever shall carry the Virgin, taking the place of any of the portapasos.
The largest number of participants are from the group of the Virgin of Solitude and Piety.
The four older brothers have organized within their guild to different portapasos, who have the meters in proportion to each.
The Mayor and the Municipal Corporation have been invited to join in the passage of the throne of the Virgin by the Town Hall.
Also the mayor has given the traditional side highlighting the uniqueness of this event and inviting Cartagena wanting to join.
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS DEPARTURES
In the nearly three hundred years of history of the image, it has procesionado on rare occasions.
The latest was in 2010, when he went to St. Lucia to celebrate the holy jubilee year in the parish of Santiago.
Previously the Virgin of Charity procesionó in 2005 for two days in the streets of Cartagena and was in the Charity Hospital to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration of his crown.
During the twentieth century Neapolitan image was taken through the streets of Cartagena on three occasions: in 1923, in 1955 and in 1993 to commemorate the third anniversary of the establishment of the Holy and Royal Hospital Charity.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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