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On the morning of Sunday, the Church of Ntra. Sra. De las Mercedes de Puebla de Soto, dressed up for the celebration of the Holy Mass of the Candelaria, traditional festival weekend held following that of its festival, which is on February 2.
This tradition goes back to 1726, following an ancient tradition, in which the Virgen de las Mercedes, the patron of this population "Sale Mass" by the standards of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, to present the Child Jesus in the Church and ancestral Purification was customary to after birth, and whose maximum invocation represents the feast of the Candelaria.
This year we will have the Band of Bugles and Drums and the squad spenders Brotherhood of veterans of the Legion of Murcia.
The Virgin is dressed differently from the rest of the year: holding the Infant Jesus - of Roque López, 1797 - suit lace, silks and diapers to a traditional christening huertano past.
She wears white blanket of white lace and lace, typical of huertanas girlfriends, and in her right hand the Valencian artistic candle.
The throne is decorated in an original way, not only carries roses, carnations and gladioli but their feet two doves or white doves as written in the Gospel of Luke and most original, throne adorned with eight tarts and white -tartas- by each of the eight Stewards of the Brotherhood of the Holy popularly Brotherhood of the Lord, that a "Baptism of the Child" done from time immemorial tarts and always have accompanied the throne as if a celebration were in the presentation in the temple and the Purification of the Mother.
By the way, this day dessert almost all the people are and tarts and is estimated at more than a hundred who are tasted Sunday in their homes all Puebloans inviting this succulent delicacy to people attending the celebration from other locations, others do not pray and put a finger to the throne and going to start to savor.
Source: Junta Municipal de Puebla de Soto
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