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On the occasion of the feast the Church celebrates tomorrow, December 28, the day of the Holy Innocents, the Choir of the Cathedral of Murcia Party wants to regain the rump.
This is an old holiday tradition that dates back to medieval times and consists of the investiture of one of the children of the choir of a cathedral as the highest authority.
The rump of this year has been elected by his fellow Choir, and the honor was awarded to Dennis Alcaraz Brugarolas, almost 8 years old.
The rump, clad in pontifical and accompanied by the Choir will be directed from the Cathedral to the Bishop's Palace to be greeted by the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Bishop D.
Jose Manuel Lorca Planes.
This event will take place at eleven o'clock in the yard of the Episcopal Palace.
During the event, the crosses will be imposed on new members of the Choir of the Cathedral.
History
Julio Caro Baroja, in his book, The Carnival, says that of all the festivals in Spain related to the Saturnalia, the best known is that of the rump.
Traditionally, it began to celebrate, among students and young singers, December 6, the feast of St. Nicholas of Bari.
One of the young students was chosen clerizones or "bishop", covered and followed as such in a jovial tone, usually until 28 December, Day of the Innocents, highlight of the party.
The real bishop resigned deposuit symbolically potent site ('toppled from his throne the mighty') of the Magnificat and the boy took his place on the et exaltavit humiles ('and lifted up the lowly ").
After the election, the child was dressed in the robes of the bishop's own, including miter and crosier, and attended by comrades dressed as priests, making a tour of the city in which he blessed the people.
Typically, the chosen child and his friends took possession of the cathedral and performed all the ceremonies and offices except mass.
It seems that originally confined to the cathedrals, the custom spread to many parishes.
Seem to be very many examples of the celebration during the Middle Ages, from Paris (where it already existed in 1212) to Venice, where he was known as Bishop dei Pazzi or innocent.
In England it was known as Boy Bishop.
These are held in Murcia, León and Palencia, Valencia were held in school holidays the same type around 1340, linked to ecclesiastical institutions, such as Santa Catalina on 25 November.
The celebration was also established in the cathedrals of new creation, as occurred in Granada after 1492 in order of Hernando de Talavera, first archbishop, who considered it "a means of small infants fan of the sacred office."
He also went to Gran Canaria, along with the feast of the Innocents, as reflected in the prohibitions that the council made in 1515 to "bind horns, bring pillows and filthy words."
Despite critical to the church itself, the party was tolerated, perhaps because the hierarchy knew that eventually re-established order and each occupied the rightful place according to their rank.
Prohibitions
For the character of the boys and the festive nature of time that was given, the antics that were committed were gaining popularity, and the party was the subject of many prohibitions and restrictions from medieval Media.7 During the last sessions of the Council Basel (1445) were issued bans or limitations, and the party was banned in the first half of the sixteenth century in various dioceses, such as Seville, Lleida, Girona, Perpignan or Mallorca, even before the Council in 1566 Trento generalized prohibition.
Revivals
"The rump" again held at Hereford Cathedral in 1973, for a special children's service, who have continued to complete annual and traditional ceremonies since 1982.
The boy bishop preached a sermon and leads the prayers of several diocesan services of Advent.
These ceremonies are held now in the cathedrals of Westminster and Salisbury, and several parish churches in England.
The practice has also been recovered in Chavagnes International College, a Catholic boarding school in France.
In the United States, one of the first revivals of the practice took place in 1979 at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany (New York), as part of an annual medieval fair held in the great Gothic church.
In Spain, the tradition continued to be held in Catalonia, where is famous Montserrat Monastery bisbetó.
It has also been recovered in Burgos in 1998, with the recovery of the choir of the cathedral, as some localities of Navarre, and in 2009 in Palencia.
In the Choir of Montserrat is still celebrated the feast of the rump (the bisbetó festa in Catalan).
Joan explains in his book Amades Costumari català that the choice of bisbetó takes place on November 22, the day of St. Cecilia, patron saint of music, and governs all day St. Nicholas helped the Vicar General, the Master of Ceremonies and secretary, and is served by two pages, also chosen from the choir.
It is enthroned in front of the whole community led by the abbot, at nine o'clock.
After the pages so you pontifical dress, sits on the chair and secretary episcopal pastoral reads a slightly festive to children.
The choir then sings the "Hymn of St. Nicholas', while the bisbetó lavish blessings.
Then, from marches triumphant chorus sung by the choir, goes to the dressing room, where they sing a Salve to the Black Madonna.
Source: Obispado de Cartagena
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