The mayor gave the streets last night to the Cabildo Superior de Brotherhoods and Confraternities of Holy Week to allow him to process in a traditional act in which also was announced the announcing poster that this year has as protagonist the image of the Christ of the Mar Menor.
The representatives of the brotherhoods and brotherhoods of San Pedro del Pinatar, escorted by the Roman third party and the band of horns and drums of San Pedro Apóstol, processioned last night until the Town Hall to ask the mayor, Visitation Martínez, the streets of the town.
At the ceremony, which is traditionally celebrated on Ash Wednesday, with the beginning of Lent, the mayor ceded the streets to the Cabildo General de Agrupaciones to process, as well as the subsidy to the guilds of Holy Week, with an amount of 53,000 euros .
During the ceremony, Visación Martínez emphasized that "Pinatarenses live intensely Holy Week, with different acts of worship of the parish, the tributes and celebrations of the different groups, culminating with the 13 parades that procession through the streets of San Pedo del Pinatar, from the Friday of Dolores to the Sunday of resurrection. "
He also thanked "the effort made by the different brotherhoods and brotherhoods during the year so that all the details look in a special way in the steps and achieve a Holy Week as magnificent as that every year fill the streets of the town.
On the other hand, the president of the Cabildo Superior de Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods of Holy Week, Mariano Visedo, said that with this act "we enter Lent time, a road that we have to travel to get to the day we have prepared to show The passion of Jesus, we have turned to make known the characters, the environment that surrounded the passion and resurrection of Christ in the best possible way, throughout all the days of Holy Week in our processions.
Also present was the poster announcing the Holy Week, an image of the Christ of the Mar Menor in the processional Via Crucis of Holy Wednesday, image of the local photographer Blas Escudero.
In addition, he took advantage of the ceremony to announce that María del Carmen Pérez Rivera will be in charge of proclaiming Pinatar's Holy Week, and this year the Cabildo has chosen Processors of the Year, posthumously, Antonio Escudero and Domingo Conesa.
The act of delivery of streets concluded with a prayer, by the curate of the parish of St. Peter the Apostle, Angel Molina, and the offering of a laurel wreath in the monument to the Nazarene, located in the Plaza of Spain, which honors the Work of deceased Pinatarenses who, since 1951, created and praised Holy Week in the municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar