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José Ballesta attends this afternoon to the Eucharist of San Antonio, maintaining a tradition that finds its origins in 1648 with the eradication of the plague epidemic that ravaged the city in the first half of the seventeenth century.
In 1648, the then mayor first recited a novena in the Convent of the Sisters of San Antonio and since then, the municipality has been safe from the disease.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, will attend this evening to the Eucharist on the occasion of the feast of San Antonio, which commemorates the eradication of the plague epidemic that struck Murcia during the first half of the seventeenth century and which will be officiated by the Franciscan monks , In the Convent of the Franciscan Conceptionist Sisters of San Antonio, located in the hamlet of Algezares.
This tradition finds its origins in the year 1648, when the then mayor of the city of Murcia went to the Convent of these nuns - then located in the San Antonio de Murcia and today in the C / Subida a la Fuensanta de Algezares) and Prayed a novena with the aim of ceasing the disease that so many victims were causing in the municipality.
According to tradition, this gesture kept Murcia safe from the epidemic to this day and since that year, it is customary for any member of the municipal corporation to attend the eurcaristía and entrusted to San Antonio (whose festival is celebrated Today, June 13) to watch over the good health of Murcia and its neighbors.
After the Eucharist there will be a tasting of San Antonio rolls, lemon slush and typical sweets made by the religious.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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