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The 'Fifth Brotherhood' maintains its support for processions despite the crisis (25/02/2009)

A 226,000 euros, an amount similar to last year's totals the check delivered by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro at Easter brotherhoods.

Run the times, the City wants to share the commitment of the brothers and we do with the generosity that allowed times, the mayor said, explaining that despite the crisis and the cuts, maintaining financial aid the guilds: a help which is complemented by the work provided by municipal employees in the organization of parades and other financial aid, including from the chairs or given to groups.

The ceremony, attended by several hundred people who have gathered in front of the main balcony of the Town Hall.

With military punctuality four older brothers, Jose Miguel Mendez (Marrajos), Juan Manuel Moreno Escosa (California), Manuel Martínez (Relief) and Tomas Martinez (Risen), who held the office of Vice President of the Board of guilds, have agreed Palace Hall to the sound of charanga.

A few minutes later the convoy appeared on the balcony, where Tomas Martinez, before formally communicate the decision of the various general councils a year out processions in the street, has claimed the religious character of the parades of passion and asked, that beyond the arms of the guilds, the main symbol of the procession is the unity of the four brotherhoods Easter.

Vice President of the Board of guilds thanked the Mayor has always support accorded to the processions and the understanding you had with the guilds and have been asked to continue helping those objectives as the coveted outstanding Museum of the Week Santa, based brother of the four guilds.

LA QUINTA BROTHERHOOD

For its part, the mayor noted that the processions are a tradition that unites us with our parents, parents of our parents and is lost in time and through it, Cartagena placed on the street is their most precious and most beloved traditions their identity as a people.

It is not only a formation of thrones and penitent, he explained Barreiro, but the parade of a feeling, a drum whose call will come, again the Cartagena living in the Diaspora and visitors.

Also had words for the role of council, which does nothing but take the will of the Cartagena when he puts municipal employees to work at Easter as if it were a fifth guild.

The event concluded with the delivery of the check and the customary invitation to the mayor, the cry of Music and Street, to inform the people of Cartagena, one Ash Wednesday, there will be another year processions.

The delegation was led then to the Church of Charity, which has concluded an offering to the patron.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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