"As a citizen suffers in Murcia we are obligated to renew this vote," added the Mayor
The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, presided this afternoon the renovation of the former Council vote to Our Lady of the Rosary, a traditional remote recovered two years ago by the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary of Murcia and the Murcia Municipal Program left.
The mayor was accompanied by several councilors of the Municipal Corporation.
The church of Santa Ana has received this moving ceremony, where he recalled House "that Huerta Murcia and speak of the centuries-old devotion to the Rosary of the Virgin.
Just remember with emotion the song ancestral auroros bells calling the Marian prayer.
Without doubt, the work of the Dominicans in the field of culture and popular religiosity has left a pleasant impression on the memory of our City.
And they have learned that we are called to join the thousands, millions of people who share the faith and hope in a better, more caring, more humane and just, in the reign of peace and love around prayer and the Holy Rosary. "
Mayor House has added a solemn vow that arose over the alleged miraculous cure of an epidemic, which devastated the city in the seventeenth century, and explained that "today we are not free of those tragedies, some of them, as fanaticism , selfishness, materialism, drought, lack of water which gives secular hope, life and prosperity, we are even more concerned today than in years gone by. "
The mayor also explained 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 Vote to renew their enthusiasm and joy. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia