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Mayor renews the historic House vote of the Rosary in the Convent of Santa Ana (07/10/2008)

Murcia City Council was held this afternoon the old council vote to the Virgen del Rosario, a remote tradition that has been recovered by the municipality and by the Confraternity of the Virgin of Rosario de Murcia

The church of Santa Ana hosted this historic event which last year brought up a secular tradition of our City Hall, missing for decades.

This is the vote that the City Council of Murcia, made in perpetuity to the Virgen del Rosario, in gratitude for the goods received to get rid of a terrible epidemic in 1677.

During the solemn function of the Vote, the City Council in full and in clubs, and chaired by the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, renewed that vow.

After the Eucharist, the sacred image of Our Lady toured the ships of the Convent of Santa Ana in devout procession Claustral.

The Mayor pointed out that "while the world catastrophes and tragedies occur, while in Murcia city suffers some weighed down by grief or crushed by despair, while someone struggles to preserve and disseminate our beliefs and identity, we are obliged to renew this vote with hope and joy.

Because, 330 years after its founding, far from being an outdated custom, shines again recovered by the passion these brothers of the Confraternity of the Rosary put in organizing. "

Miguel Ángel Cámara also added that "once the votes were erected by episodes of epidemics and plagues, so did earthquakes and drought, in which ordinary way the City of Murcia confidently resorted to the mediation of the Virgen del Rosario , sometimes begging their comfort, protection and provided other blessing.

Today we are not free of those tragedies and some of them, like bigotry, selfishness or materialism or drought, lack of water which gives secular hope, life and prosperity, we are even more concerned today than in years gone by " .

During the month of October and as usual, the Confraternity of the Virgin of Rosario de Murcia, whose holder is venerated in the historic and artistic Convent Church of Santa Ana (Las Anas), is holding various acts of worship and devotion in honor of said Marian image.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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