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The Friday night Mazarrón live a more emotive acts of Easter.
After the procession of the Holy Burial in Convent Square, the Holy Sepulchre goes to the church of San Andrés accompanied by the Virgin of La Soledad.
Silence overtakes the streets in the transfer of Christ to the place where the people show their devotion Mazarron.
When the recumbent Christ comes to the door of that parish, removing it from its brethren golden cradle and place it in a new grave and covering it with a blanket under the watchful image of his mother, who kneels in pain and veneration shown toward his son.
Jesus is then placed on the altar of the church to be neighbors parading before him and kissing his feet.
This unique wake is a single act in the Region and unfamiliar to many of the citizens of other municipalities of Murcia.
It is an act full of emotion contained in the Mazarron town shows great devotion to the death of Christ.
The neighbors involved with great respect in the same because it is a consolidated tradition that was first celebrated in 2004 under the responsibility of the brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre.
The move of the Holy Sepulchre is the principal of the brotherhood of the same name.
It is a throne made up of a golden cradle, with ancient carvings and have news that in 1852 an inventory of the parish of San Antonio.
The family later Monche ceded it to the church and, thanks to Julian Campillo he hid in his farm was saved from being destroyed during the civil war.
In 2006, instructing the carver-gilder Lorente Jose Sanchez, Nonduermas, a base of sticks to the throne.
This done following the ancient decoration of it, giving more prominence to the crib.
The recumbent statue of Christ is not the ancient tradition as handed fishermen Monche Antonio since disappeared in the war of 1936.
The current was acquired in 1949 by religious sculpture workshop Bretcha Son Ramon, Olot.
It was restored in 2006 in Lorca in the restoration workshop Bastida Joaquin Gil.
This is undoubtedly one of the most symbolic steps of Holy Week Mazarron.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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