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Devotion Guild pattern Platero, San Eloy, Murcia was so intense that their guild is an active member of society for centuries Murcia.
However, for many years, the figure of the saint was relegated into oblivion until the Cultural Association University of San Eloy regained Silversmiths.
Missing, however, the perpetual homage to the master in the streets.
Now, the plan was and Murcia San Eloy Association have reached an agreement to allow the placement of a magnificent altarpiece ceramic Silver Street, so called to collect on their trades, from the Middle Ages, the goldsmiths Murcia.
The project will be supervised by teachers Jesus Francisco Rivas Carmona and Manuel Pérez Sánchez, who have opted to place a replica of a magnificent eighteenth century engraving.
The engraving represents the pattern image, which was conducted by Francisco Salzillo for the Guild of Silversmiths and Smiths of the city of Murcia to 1749.
The site chosen for placement of the altarpiece, which could be installed before the end of the year, Silver Street, at its intersection with Tatters, exactly at the place known as the Four Corners.
The owners of the building, the company López Carrillo, have authorized their placement.
Those responsible for conducting the altarpiece ceramic artisans workshop will Lario, Lorca, experts in this type of work and a professional career.
The altarpiece, whose reproduction is attached to this page, you will be in blue on white.
The choice of blue respects the ancient tradition to label the streets with ceramic plates of this color.
In addition, the altarpiece include another plaque commemorating the placement of the piece.
Altarpiece placement coincides with the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Art Studies at the University of Murcia.
Thus, the Consistory Murcia joins planned activities from the Art Department.
A former union
San Eloy belongs to a generation of bishops humanist who fought for education and culture, in the seventh century.
St. Eloi was bishop of Noyon (France), according to legend, spent a little money to fuse two thrones.
Had to apply for this great knowledge of jewelry, as the raw material was scarce.
For this reason he is venerated as the patron of Silversmiths.
In the city of Murcia approved the ordinances of the Guild of Silversmiths in 1738 and still preserved in the city a street of Silver, which recalls the establishment there of these artisans.
San Eloy devotion was so prominent in Murcia that the Guild attended in full to the saint cults that he surrendered in the nearby parish of St. Bartholomew and the standard of the silversmiths of the procession was solemn procession of the Holy Burial of Christ .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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