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This municipality of the Mar Menor celebrates today one of its great days in honor of the patron of the men of the sea, with a multitudinous terrestrial pilgrimage and the subsequent maritime procession in which hundreds of people show their devotion and fervor for the "Star of the seas ".
The municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar celebrates today one of the festivities with greater roots and tradition, a pilgrimage by land and sea in honor of the Virgen del Carmen, in which fishermen and faithful, accompanied by thousands of neighbors and visitors, move their image from San Pedro del Pinatar to Lo Pagán.
The festivity, whose celebration as it is known today goes back 126 years ago in the municipality, has begun at 07:00 hours with a bullseye through the streets of San Pedro del Pinatar and then Lo Pagán, followed an hour later by the traditional mass in the Plaza de la Constitución, officiated by the parish priest of San Pedro, Roberto Burgos.
Despite the intense heat, hundreds of people have been part of the pilgrimage that at 9:00 am departed from the church of San Pedro Apóstol to the port of Lo Pagán, making stops at the altars that neighbors and fishermen raise to the passage of the Virgin and in which the Salve Marinera is sung.
The president of the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, the mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitación Martínez and the senior patron of the Fishermen's Association, Jesús Antonio Gómez, were in charge of opening the procession along with representatives of the Virgen Association del Carmen and other civil and military positions.
The traditional "tronaera", a deafening trail that announces the entrance of the Virgin in the Port of Lo Pagán, has put an end to the terrestrial route.
The ship Chato Uno, by Francisco Antonio López and Manuel Aguado, members of the fishermen's fraternity, was commissioned to embark this year the image of the patron saint on her journey through the Mar Menor.
The Virgin has been escorted by hundreds of fishing and recreational boats, decorated for the occasion and full of worshipers who, after a prayer, have thrown carnations into the water in memory of the deceased men of the sea.
After the landing, a Campaign Mass was celebrated in the Lo Pagán Fish Market, before the image was transferred to the church of Nuestra Seńora del Carmen in Lo Pagán.
The day ends at dawn with the procession back from the parish of Lo Pagán to San Pedro del Pinatar, starting at midnight.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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