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The next Saturday, January 30th, at 19:30 hours, the village of Puebla de Soto will be present at the Mass of Thanksgiving, to be held in Murcia Cathedral, celebrated by Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes, to be commemorating the 575 anniversary of its foundation, once it acquired the Charter of Population (News of Murcia Puebla), with the assistance of the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta Germán, together with the President of the Municipal Board and headman of Puebla de Soto, Francisco Zamora Galera.

The Charter of population was granted by the Portuguese noble and royal adviser, Don Alonso Fernandez de Cascales, and ratified by King Juan II of Castile, the December 24, 1440, which led him also creating a new parish, founded by Mercedarios, in honor of the Blessed.

Mother of God of Mercy and Mercedes.

The essential reason for this commemoration bring our Cathedral is for several reasons, the first of them and master the meet our old patron, the Virgin of Mercy and Mercy (affectionately known of The Captive), presiding in the Year of Mercy, in the high chancel, the altar, from the 13th of December, for the Jubilee Year of mercy and will be until next November 20, one of the jewels in imagery, Gothic sculpture of the fifteenth century, and one of the oldest iconography with which our region.

And secondly, to commemorate this ephemeris placing a wreath at the tomb close to Puxmarines, specifically in the chapel of San Juan Nepomuceno, tomb is one of the descendants of our founder, Don Alonso Fernandez de Cascales, which as you said in that grave, "Don Alonso Rodrigo de Castilla y Zayas, a descendant of Peter I of Castile, Perpetual Regidor of the City of Murcia, Knight of the Order of Calatrava and Lord Jurisdictional of Puebla de Santarém Villas and Torremillanos, and grandfather of the first Marqués de Iscar in Seville. Murcia, May 1668. RIP ".

The Mass will be musically harmonized by the great organ of the Cathedral and will also be sung by the Musical Association of Puebla de Soto, who along with the priests who concelebrate the same with the Bishop of the Diocese, José Manuel Lorca, will also be our pastor Don Ramon Hernandez Salvador.

Currently, there are already several chartered buses to bring the residents of Puebla de Soto, the only five and a half kilometers that separate us from the capital and to be in this great event for the hamlet.

Source: Agencias