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La Peña Huertana La Seda de La Alberca celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the blessing of the silk worm's seed, a tradition rooted in the significance of obtaining this fiber in Murcia with cultural activities and traditional pilgrimage.
The poster announcing this edition is made by Antonio Castillo, local painter.
As this year marks the 125th anniversary of the Sericícola de Murcia with its headquarters in La Alberca, La Seda has decided that its director, Juana Mulero, director general of Agri-Food Innovation and director of the Murciano Institute for Agricultural Research and Development and Food, be the ambassador 2017.
On Friday, March 3, at 6 pm, a silk screening exhibition will be held for children.
On Saturday 4, at 4.30 pm, the second blessing of the seed concert will take place with the performances of Santi Campillo (ex-M-CLAN), Fito Galiana (Founder of The Secrets) and Antonio Soler, who will present his new album I presented.
On Sunday 5th, at 10 o'clock, the traditional pilgrimage and blessing of the silk worm seed will be celebrated in the convent of Santa Catalina del Monte.
This year, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Sericícola station, it is returning to its facilities, returning to the old route that for more than 20 years that the Christ of Perdón is in custody for the rock of the Silk had not realized it.
The Blessing of the Seed of the Silkworm dates back to the nineteenth century: in those years the huertano yearned for the arrival of the first days of March, to collect the seed that was kept in its tent in order to be able to bless it and obtain a great harvest in The campaign that was about to begin.
At that time the orchards joined in a great pilgrimage to the Hermitage of San Antonio El Pobre, they passed by the Sericícola Station of La Alberca and they collected the Christ of the Forgiveness, Pattern of the Fans and Weavers of the Silk, that there was guarded, So that together they reached the Hermitage and celebrated a mass campaign, in which the blessing of the seed was proceeded.
La Peña Huertana La Seda in 1975 and after many years of inactivity, collects the tradition and proceeds to bless, year after year, the seed of the silkworm.
The blessing was held for a few years in Santa Catalina del Monte because the Ermita de San Antonio el Pobre was in very bad condition - it has returned since the City of Murcia rehabilitated it in 2006.
The image of the Christ of Forgiveness of this pilgrimage belonged to the Sericícola Station, which was founded in 1892 on the El Palmar road.
In 1912 he passed to La Alberca.
After the Station disappeared in 1977, the members of the peña alberqueña recovered the image of the Christ, who from then on guarded in its headquarters.
They are the ones who are concerned to favor the blessing of a harvest that is sustained thanks to the efforts of a few.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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