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Jose David Molina Moderate, official historian of the town, gave a talk at the Dome of the Church of St. Paul entitled "Historical notes on Holy Week Abarán" which made an historical approach the town from Easter their origins to the present, under a justification based on their own research.
Also offered an explanation for the procession of the penitents and visiting old cemeteries, and toured the imagery before the Civil War, showing the first pictures taken of the processions of our people.
The conference was very well received by the large audience.
<<The processions have always been a cult following that occurs within the church, something that has been lost Abarán.
In five hundred years of history of Christianity, the processions have been changing very simple to the more ostentatious, spiritually have plummeted>> says the columnist.
<<Now there is a divorce between the offices of Holy Week processions.
The culprits, "he continues we all are.
What is certain is that when you do something serious people respond.
This is what happened with the arrival of the Virgin to the churchyard, where the silence is absolute - he says, a practice that has been in compliance since the last fifteen years.
However the processions of our people seriously lack>> Jose David Molina said in his speech.
Temperate justified the venue for the presentation as the first room that was in Abarán thrones.
<<We are in the expansion of the cemetery since ancient burials were made in the church, however - he continued, "there came a time when the population increased so that no more bodies could fit inside the temple, As the pastor, to avoid clashes between families, decide to apply for the construction of this vault>>.
According to the official chronicler Abarán, since 1790 the burials were made in the parish vault.
In 1810 he closed with a stone wall and his life falls into oblivion, a forgetfulness that later became unknown.
In 1924, he was rediscovered and the space begins to be used as a storage closet Easter thrones and objects of the disused church.
Currently the roof is used for lectures and conferences, rather than parish choir and space that houses the catechism classes.
How long is celebrated Easter in Abarán?
Molina said Tempered <<Abarán, like the rest of the population of Valle de Ricote, converts to Christianity in 1501, due to an edict of Queen Isabella offered privileges to those Muslim populations convert to the cult of the Christian religion >>.
This privilege included a tax cut and allowed members of the population use weapons.
<<The Council becomes Alhama.
It was created in 1501 when the City of Abarán, since then transforms Alhama de Isabel la Católica privilege in Villa de Abarán>> he said.
Jose David Molina said that in 1508 had 65 families Abarán <<a few hundred people about>>.
In his speech highlighted the years 1565, when the boom taking Christianity to the town, and 1596, year of establishment of the Fiestas de San Cosme y San Damian.
The first procession in 1610 and appears to arise the important figure of the preacher.
<<The first reference we have of the appearance of street processions Abarán dates from 1610 and refers to the year 1586, therefore, we can say that the first reference processions Abarán arise in the sixteenth century>> he said.
The reporter explained that during the seventeenth century there is an instability in the celebration of Christian worship.
Proof of this are the few references that are linked to the uncertainty that marked the king's decree that led to the expulsion of the Moriscos.
<<Back in the eighteenth century, written references begin to appear.
In this century we must emphasize two key dates: 1721, by the extension of the church of San Pablo, and 1790, the year in which to build the crossing and the area where it is now the new face of the Brotherhood of the Servants of Mary - Our Lady of Bitterness, "and the altar>> Warm said.
In 1721 there are references to images that may have come in procession.
The columnist speaks about the image of Our Lady of Conception and San Martín, Abarán former employers, and of Our Lord Jesus and the Virgin of Solitude.
Between the sixteenth and seventeenth processions remain at the location of the Plaza Vieja.
The procession of penitents, as the chronicler, is the first, the basis of Holy Week and currently stored in more resemblance to the commencement procession.
This procession is to pray the Stations of the Cross while visiting the cemeteries.
Called the procession of steps, has the steps of the station since he was sentenced Jesus to his crucifixion, as measured by the Franciscan Order.
<<The stations showing the number of steps that had to be given from one to another.
Later - he noted, the stations were reported because people could not go praying and counting the steps at the same time. It represented - continued Jesus' ordeal which added a total of 1000 steps>>.
On the first images taken from the Easter abaranera, these photographs give us information about the absence of the Samaritan woman in the procession on the Via Crucis on Good Friday morning.
In this same procession, the image of Veronica initially paraded without Christ, and <<draws attention to the small number of people on the streets>>, said Jose David Molina.
Another Warm notes explaining the similarity of the image model of the Holy Women Samaritan Abarán the image model parading in the procession of Holy Wednesday in the Barrio del Carmen de Murcia in the procession of "coloraos" work of Don Roque López.
<<It is possible that the two images are of the same author>>.
The same applies to the images of the Jews of Christ Abarán and parades in White, the work of Sánchez Tapia.
<<Working on the assumption that the three images are of the same author>> he said.
The reporter explained that the era of euphoria Abarán Easter in 1963 coincides with the rise of the football team to first division.
<<The Holy Week reaches its climax in that year bought the Descent, a Veronica new band appears in the Cam, which gave a boost to the order of processions>> he said.
He adds that <<the Brotherhood of St. John the Evangelist change the financing system of guilds by selling raffle ballots for the monkey that contribute to the brotherhoods have the funds to modernize their costumes, thrones, banners ...>> .
The columnist concluded his speech with criticism of <<the change in the processions that has shifted a great simplicity to make way for a greater display>>.
The councilman of Culture of the City of Abarán, Mercedes de la Fuente Tornero, chaired the conference, the president of the Center for Abaraneros, José Gil García, Domingo de Ramos announced that there will be a <<simple ceremony after the mass of St. Paul Parish which gave the audience the first edition of the book containing the verses of the representation of the Order of Arrest and Horn, illustrated with photographs>>.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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