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La Peña Huertana La Seda de La Alberca celebrates the 43th anniversary of the blessing of the silkworm seed, a tradition rooted in the significance of obtaining this fiber in Murcia, with cultural activities and its traditional pilgrimage.
Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesus Pacheco, has indicated that "from the City we put all our effort to preserve traditions and more if it is something as special and special to our land as the blessing of the worm seed The silk industry became very important in the Huerta de Murcia and today, thanks to the grove of La Alberca, we can maintain the tradition of the pilgrimage and transfer it to future generations ".
The traditional pilgrimage, whose poster has been prepared by Pepe Franco, will be held on Sunday, March 4, with a departure at 10 am from Peña Huertana la Seda and Mass at the Convent of Santa Catalina del Monte at 12.30.
In this edition it will once again pass through the Sericícola facilities, taking up the old route.
Previously, on Friday March 2 there will be a display of deboning so that the little ones know what can be done with the silk, while on Saturday the third concert of the blessing of the seed will be held by Antonio Soler and Fito Galiana
As the 2018 ambassador for silk, the councilor for Traffic and Public Safety, Lola Sánchez Alarcón, was elected.
The Blessing of the Seed of the Silkworm dates back to the 19th century: in those years the Huertano longed for the arrival of the first days of March, to collect the seed that he had kept in his barrack in order to bless it and get a great harvest in the campaign that was about to begin.
At that time the huertanos were united in a great pilgrimage towards the Hermitage of San Antonio the Poor, they passed through the Sericícola Station of La Alberca and picked up the Christ of the Forgiveness, Pattern of the Torcedores and Weavers of the Silk, that was guarded there, in this way all together reach the hermitage and celebrate a campaign mass, which proceeded to the blessing of the seed.
La Peña Huertana La Seda, in 1975 and after many years of inactivity, picks up the tradition and proceeds to bless, year after year, the seed of the silkworm.
The blessing was celebrated for a few years in Santa Catalina del Monte because the Hermitage of San Antonio el Pobre was in very bad condition where it returned in 2006 once it was rehabilitated by the City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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