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A crowd of devotees waiting at the door of the Basilica to escort on its way to reaching the port, where Mass was held |
The bishop, José Manuel Lorca Planes presided at Mass in the key day of the Diocesan Year of Charity.
Thousands of faithful took over the streets of the city and Cartagena once again demonstrated its full devotion to the patron.
The day began at 16.00, at which time the patron went outside, waiting for the faithful.
Over two thousand portapasos took turns to charge Charity on his shoulders.
Civilian authorities joined the parade at the gates of the Town Hall.
The fate of the procession, the port was the place where the Mass presided by Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes held.
But the bathroom was not only faithful from Cartagena, but many people, specifically fifty buses from different parts of the region moved to the port city yesterday to see his patron in the Charity Day.
160 priests accompanied the bishop during Mass and ended his homily with viva la Virgen de la Caridad, live our mother, presented a project proposed by diocesan Caritas to train unemployed youth to assist them in finding employment.
After finishing the Mass, the patron returned to the Basilica in procession with a longer stroke, which the faithful were not afraid because they accompanied on his return.
37 OUTPUTS THREE HUNDRED YEARS
In the nearly three hundred years of history of the image, it has procesionado 37 times, with yesterday.
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 four occasions: in 1923, 1939, 1955 and in 1993 to commemorate the third anniversary of the establishment of the Holy and Royal Hospital Charity.
Prior to the twentieth century, had procesionado 30 times: on arrival at the port and in other 29 in prayers for water or epidemics during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
So off yesterday was his 37th in its history.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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