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The Governing Council has approved an agreement between the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Catholic University of San Antonio (UCAM) for restoration of the stature of Christ the Healer of the Church of San Juan de Dios de Murcia.
Under the agreement, the UCAM bear the cost of restoration, amounting to 30,000 euros, and the Ministry, through the Center for Restoration of the Region of Murcia, supervise the work.
The carving is an image of a crucified Christ large polychrome wood carving.
The work, executed as altarpiece is a picture of great antiquity, which the experts in the transition from the sixteenth century.
He was head of an ancient brotherhood that gave worship for centuries, and which became extinct in the nineteenth century.
In 1957 was born a brotherhood Easter was considered the successor of the former and took it as the main image for procession that parades every Tuesday Santo from San Juan de Dios.
Source: CARM
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