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Puebla de Soto held yesterday in the procession of the Virgen de la Candelaria, the feast that has been in development since 1726, hundreds of people with children wearing traditional candles (tapers) attended the first Mass held by the pastor of the parish, D.
Lazarus Gomariz and sung by the choir of the Brotherhood Rociera de Molina de Segura, with the blessing of candles and subsequent submission to the Virgin of children born during the past year.
Later he conducted the procession through the streets of the town with the Virgen de la Candelaria, well dressed for the occasion, and it is the patron saint of Puebla de Soto, Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, carrying the Child Jesus, Roque López and 1797, a suit of lace, silks and diapers as for a traditional christening huertano earlier times.
She wears golden mantilla lace and gold lace, a gift from the family of Pedro de los Santos Jiménez, by the way of the Year Nazareno Semana Santa de Murcia for 2009 and in the right hand the artistic candle Valencia.
La Candelaria this year wore the suit coat donated by the family of Paco Anton and crown a few years ago blessed Benedict XVI in Rome.
The throne was decorated a year in original with two white doves as a says the Gospel of Luke and highlights always and it also called the "procession of the cake," the throne to be accompanied with cakes and pies, of different promises and thus continuing the old tradition of the now defunct Holy Brotherhood, in which each of the eight stewards that corresponded to the throne had to provide a cake with meringue as is traditional in the garden of Murcia.
Few houses in Puebla de Soto that day no dessert for lunch or dinner the traditional cakes Candlemas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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