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Highlight to "grow as a neighborhood means to be able to work together, to share efforts with those who think alike and not to look to a future that has to be better"
Congratulates José Egea, named 'Neighbor of the Year' in recognition of their relationship for three decades the Association for Persons with Down Syndrome, ASSIDO
The president of the Community, Alberto Garre, said today that "it is not possible to delve into our history without finding in it a constant reference to the Virgin Mary" and the Region of Murcia has always been "a land of strong Marian roots" .
The head of Murcia made the remarks during the reading of the opening of the festivities Murcia district of Santa María de Gracia, in a ceremony held at the General Archive of the region.
Thus, the president Garre said that "the name of the Virgin, in many titles, is associated with schools and hospitals, social centers, and in the background, to any institution in which men have set out their help and comfort over the years. "
"It is not therefore surprising," he said, "that one of the most ancient titles of Mary in Murcia, one of the most permeated the hearts of our ancestors, the Virgen de Gracia, give name a new urban area that began with social vocation. "
In that vein, he evoked the different historical events associated with the devotion to the Virgin Mary in Murcia and lived urban evolution in the last 700 years for the land on which now sits the neighborhood since Jaime I the Conqueror brought city ​​the size of the Virgen de Gracia.
"Seven centuries," he said, "forming such a wide devotion that nobody should be surprised when the expansion of Murcia took named as Santa María de Gracia a brand new neighborhood that today honors His patron and devoted it its fun" .
Alberto Garre also reminded those present that "grow as a neighborhood means being able to work together to share efforts with those who think alike and who is not, to look to a future that has to be better, based on that old maxim of trying to offer our children a better than that got us in a generational change that is witnessing the evolution of Santa María de Gracia, its growth and its present and so will your future "world.
Time to "enjoy and live with passion party"
Stressing that "a cry to be primarily a transmission of mind, to enjoy and live with passion party" referred to some of the major events that characterize these celebrations, such as Painting Competition, which meets its fourteenth edition this year, and others that are incorporated for the first time the festival calendar, as I Carrera Popular Solidarity, "that goes beyond being a new sport activity, providing further evidence of the extraordinary capacity for collaboration and support neighbor distinguishes those who live in the neighborhood. "
Before concluding, congratulated President José Garre Egea, who was given the award during a ceremony at 'Neighbor of the Year' in recognition of their relationship for three decades the Association for Persons with Down Syndrome, ASSIDO;
"An exemplary institution", to which the regional chief executive also conveyed his "support and admiration."
Also had words of congratulations and thanks to the Municipal Board and its president, Ana Noriega, and the members of his team.
Source: CARM
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