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On Sunday, from 11:30 am, the Church of Ntra. Sra. De las Mercedes de Puebla de Soto, is all decked out for the celebration of the Holy Mass of the Candelaria, traditional festival held the weekend following its festival, which is on February 2.
This tradition goes back to 1726, following an ancient tradition, in which the Virgen de las Mercedes, the patron of this population "Sale Mass" by the standards of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, to present the Child Jesus in the Church and ancestral Purification was customary to after birth, and whose maximum invocation represents the feast of the Candelaria.
This year we will have the Band of Bugles and Drums and the squad spenders Brotherhood of veterans of the Legion of Murcia.
Also Saturday morning at nine p.m. be held at the Home for the Elderly in Puebla de Soto, the now traditional dance of the tarts and, where it is given to taste this tasty treat and even held draws many others.
For many years much smaller than traditional de la Merced, in the month of September- it goes out after celebrating Mass, which starting at half past eleven, procession will be celebrated by the pastor of the town, Salvador Hernández, where the start of it, women who have given birth during the past year, flock to the church and bring their young children to be presented to the Virgin at Mass and receive the blessing.
The Virgin is dressed differently from the rest of the year: holding the Infant Jesus - of Roque López, 1797 - suit lace, silks and diapers to a traditional christening huertano past.
She wears white blanket of white lace and lace, typical of huertanas girlfriends, and in her right hand the Valencian artistic candle.
The throne is decorated in an original way, not only carries roses, carnations and gladioli but their feet two doves or white doves as written in the Gospel of Luke and most original, throne adorned with eight tarts and white -tartas- by each of the eight Stewards of the Brotherhood of the Holy popularly Brotherhood of the Lord, that a "Baptism of the Child" done from time immemorial tarts and always have accompanied the throne as if a celebration were in the presentation in the temple and the Purification of the Mother.
By the way, this day dessert almost all the people are and tarts and is estimated at over a hundred which tasted Sunday in their homes all Puebloans inviting this tasty dish for people who come to the conclusion from other towns, others do not pray and put a finger to the throne and going to start to savor.
In 1991 Spanish Television in the Sunday morning program "The Day of the Lord" echoed so beautiful ceremony and relayed to all Spain and the International Channel, then, the procession and Mass, precisely in the year the "- Letter Puebla de1440 550 Anniversary of the Legal Foundation of Puebla de Soto" was fulfilled.
Source: Junta Municipal de Puebla de Soto
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