The City Council last night received the Call for Streets to be able to process the Cabildo Superior de Fraternities and Brotherhoods of Holy Week, a traditional ceremony in which it was also announced that the mayor, Visitación Martínez, will be the announcers this year and the poster was announced announcer whose protagonist is the brotherhood of Prayer in the Garden.
The representatives of the brotherhoods and brotherhoods of San Pedro del Pinatar, escorted by the Roman third and the band of cornets and drums of San Pedro Apóstol, procession last night to the City Council to ask the mayor, Visitación Martínez, the streets of the town.
At the ceremony, which is traditionally celebrated on Ash Wednesday, with the beginning of Lent, the mayor gave the streets to the General Council of Groups to process, as well as the subsidy to the brotherhoods of Holy Week, with an amount of 53,000 euros .
During the event, Visitación Martínez highlighted "the enormous effort made by the brothers who carry out the processions to the street and improve them every year", showing a "living catechesis in which the splendor of the thrones, dressed for the occasion stand out, and the great participation of the penitents and Nazarenes ".
For his part, the president of the Cabildo Superior de Fraternities and Brotherhoods of Holy Week, Mariano Visedo, said that in the different processions "we recall the time of the life of Jesus Christ in which he was a man, his last days and his teachings, with the goal of bringing God closer to others. "
The poster announcing the Holy Week was also presented, an image of the throne of The Prayer in the Garden, of the brotherhood of Christ of the Forgiveness, image of the local photographer Blas Escudero.
In addition, Mariano Visedo also reported that the mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitation Martinez, will be in charge of proclaiming the Holy Week in Pinar del Rio on March 19.
The act of handing in the streets concluded with a prayer, given by the parish priest of the town, Roberto Burgos, and the offering of a laurel wreath in the Nazarene monument, located in the Plaza de España, which pays homage to the work of the people of Pinar del Rio deceased who, since 1951, created and extolled Holy Week in the municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar