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Santa Eulalia is celebrating.
The Social Centre for the Elderly ward tomorrow evening celebrates its traditional tribute to the greatest of the area with the appointment of Uncle Blas and Candelaria.
A ceremony to be held, at 17.30, and will be entertained by a group of young flamingos.
On Saturday, February 2, will also host the traditional ceremony of the blessing of the candles and the presentation of the Virgin of children born in the last year, which were crossed with two candles in an act that is done to prevent them from diseases.
After the customary parade Mass will take place in the church of Santa Eulalia, after which the babies, accompanied by their families, spend one to one with the image of the Virgin in an act that is repeated every year and it is expected to much interest by the neighbors who have been expanded family for the last 12 months.
In the afternoon, from half past five, the procession will be held on the street that will draw pictures of San Blas, St. Joseph and Our Lady of Candelaria.
Sunday, February 3.
At 10.
30 hours will be a concert of Orfeón Fernández Caballero, who is patron of San Blas.
Devotion to San Blas festival is celebrated with great solemnity, XIV century, when in Murcia declared an epidemic of diphtheria.
He got a chapel in honor of that bishop occupy the site after the convent of the Trinitarians, now Museum of Fine Arts.
The council made a promise to go on pilgrimage to this shrine every year, as a thank you for your help.
Once the chapel disappeared, the Trinitarians took over the cult, and confiscation, he went to the parish of Santa Eulalia, which is maintained with all its old flavor.
It belongs to the party acquiring a small obispillos modeled in clay and painted with glitter, carrying a sort of plume of silk and are to be hung around his neck by a cord.
These Samblases, as they are commonly called, were built in the district of San Juan, where artisan bakeries proliferated mud.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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