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Gregorio Saura Vilar received last night Procesionista Year Award 2016, in a ceremony presided by the mayor, Jose Lopez, held in the lobby of the Town Hall.

Gregorio Saura, 66, began with 14 his career at Easter cartagenera as a penitent in the Association of Agony, of which he became president for 16 years and also made compatible with the first general commissioner of the Brotherhood Marraja.

Among those attending the ceremony the Minister of Culture, Noelia Arroyo, and Deputy Mayor, Ana Belén Castejon, along with other civil and military authorities he was.

Vice President Procesionista Year Award, Pedro Negroles, was responsible for annotating the figure of the honoree, who I qualify as an exemplary and perfect procesionista, highlighting its work in the Marraja brotherhood and collaboration in and benefit other associations for welfare .

President Award Santiago Diaz Izquierdo, in his usual intervention Saura Gregory said it was a great, good and simple man, which made him feel humble.

Then it was the turn of Saura who recognized as the sole merit exercising their rights and fulfill their obligations as patent brother Marraja Brotherhood and recalled his beginnings in the Marraja Brotherhood.

very close to the family tradition.

In the ceremony the mayor, Jose Lopez, received the gold badge of the association, as president of honor, and procesionistas of honor, the town crier and most nazarena this year, and Francisca Ortega Joaquín Bueno named.

And, as usual procesionista were delivered to numerous gifts of brotherhoods and institutions.

Before heard the Hymn to Cartagena, the mayor, Jose Lopez, closed the ceremony signifying how difficult it was to explain to visitors what is the Easter of Cartagena, which reaches only be understood by living it, feeling it and experiencing it as a child or family tradition.

He thanked Gregorio Saura for having felt that way and have followed the example of their elders, to keep that feeling alive in future generations.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena