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Pedro Antonio Sánchez emphasizes the devotion of the ñoreros to the Virgin of the Step, patron of the locality

The president of the Autonomous Community, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, today proclaimed the Holy Week of La Ñora in the Church of Our Lady of Socorro in this district of Murcia, after participating in the processional transfer of the patroness, the Virgin of the Passage, from her hermitage To the parish.

Pedro Antonio Sánchez had an interest in the devotion of the people of La Ñora to his patron, since "she entrusts herself to him. She tells him her confidences, she seeks her comfort, she asks for help and she thanks him for so much", and she emphasized the Nazarene enthusiasm of the locality , Accredited when "in the Holy Week of 1939, a few days after the conclusion of the Civil War, the Ñora organized its processions despite the fact that all the heritage had been destroyed, with drawers instead of thrones and effigies cut to size Natural in wood, instead of images. "

Throughout his speech, the town crier quoted the 11 brotherhoods that are now part of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Step, "a good example of how to honor the legacy that you received one day and that you will give, Generations to come, "and explained that a people" who have as Patroness the Blessed Virgin in the painful Passage of their Soledad, and by Patron to the Apostle Peter, on whom Christ built his Church, should be - and is - an example for all".

After a tour of each of the steps paraded in the processions of Holy Week of La Nora, including the Christ of Sorrows, and the new penitent cortege of the Saturday of Passion, recalled that "the Christian soul is curdled at this time Flowers of our orchards and our processional steps, flowers of passion, resurrection and hope.

He also named Pedro Antonio Sánchez to the imagers who have contributed their art to the processions, and also cited illustrious prelates of the Lord's land, such as Fr. Buenaventura Cano, bishop in Turkey at the beginning of the 19th century and Monsignor Francisco Gil Hellín, archbishop emeritus Of Burgos, all of them "testimony of the deep faith of a people who in a few days will show itself again in each street of La Ñora", and concluded by thanking "the privilege you have given me to proclaim a unique, historical and spectacular Holy Week : Yours, which from now on is also a bit mine. "

Source: CARM