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After the traditional dress of the Children ", held as every year the night of January 4 and has enjoyed this year with the assistance of artist Pedro Cano Murcia, more than 10 images will visit all the houses in the town on Friday 6th
The Brotherhood of the Souls of Abarán has everything ready to celebrate the "Night of the Child, one of the most entrenched and popular celebrations in our town.
Last Tuesday, January 4, held the traditional "Dressed for Children", which was attended by the artist Pedro Cano Murcia.
This act has been doing something more than a decade in the private home of the president of the Brotherhood, Bienvenido Molina Vargas and appointments are a large number of people.
January 6, Feast of the Child in Abarán
After the Mass to be officiated in the parish of San Pablo at 11 am, the images will visit the residence of the elderly and sick houses.
In the afternoon, more than 10 images will continue to visit all households in the top of the village, including the districts of San José Artesano, Slum Virgen del Oro and Hoya del Campo.
One of the most exciting times we live in the town is the output of the pictures carried by the animeros from the Parish of St. Paul around 20.00 hours, to continue to bless the houses in the municipality located in the streets near the parish and the center of town.
Once adored the Child in all homes, with the images animeros meet again in the parish of San Pablo, late at night to say goodbye until next year this tradition that increasingly attracts more visitors .
Jose David Molina Moderate, official historian of the town, referred to this tradition as a simple act: "The bearer of the image, he notes, comes into the house saying the baby Jesus in this holy house goes to the head of household Welcome answer is and offers to deposit a kiss at his feet. After doing the same thing goes with all those present, who are often family and friends [...] and after giving the last farewell with a until next year " .
Molina explains that the origin of this custom must be sought in the requests for handouts that were animeros to offer Mass and light to the souls in purgatory.
The worship of the image of the Child was offered in exchange for alms.
In the early twentieth century there was already a household aware that he hoped the image of the Child.
The writer explains that, to some extent, is controversial and paradoxical duality between the Guild of All Souls and the Feast of the Child, as the souls are directly related to the faithful departed and purgatory-that is, by death, and Children, meanwhile, is the beginning of the life of Jesus.
"It could have some sense," he says, arguing that death is the beginning of eternal life will be like being born again. "
"The whole aim and final," he continues souls of the guilds was to assist the transit of souls through purgatory. For this reason, raise enough money to say masses and burn oil as a symbol of light [...]. The brothers went almost all Sundays and holidays to beg from house to house by the people. This continuity should create a certain routine that negatively affected revenues and to avoid it, they turned to find an excuse not to ask for alms directly. "
In this sense we think that the origin of the Feast of the Child is related to the outputs of the animeros to provide funds for worship.
"Offering" he says an image of the Child Jesus from house to house to "exchange" for a kiss, to settle for a handout. "
Hence, the companions of animeros carry bags that may replace the bags for the first time.
The theory of Jose David Molina Temperate speaks the sound of the bell which signals the arrival of the brothers.
"It's another element to consider, he says, perhaps the link between auroros animeros and that most often identified. Auroros praying the rosary at dawn to the sound of a bell and chants for the dead rose."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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