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The mayor also 'put the shoulder' on the stage of the splendid image venerated in San Bartolome

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, inaugurated this morning the new Our Lady of Sorrows Street, located between the parish of St. Bartholomew and Silver Street.

The event was attended by many colleagues of the Servite Confraternity of Our Lady of Sorrows, who have conveyed their appreciation for the tribute which the city of Murcia renders the image.

Mayor House has stressed that the Brotherhood at 1,740 commissioned the sculptor Salzillo image currently worships "and can be considered without doubt as one of the most beautiful creations of the Spanish eighteenth-century imagery, as well as one of the more representative of the production of this imager Murcia. "

Thus began the origin of the procession of the "blue" also formerly known as the Palm Sunday procession, headed only by the passage of the Virgin of Sorrows, that prior to his departure was moved with great pomp and apparatus the convent of the Augustinian Reverend Mothers of Corpus Christi, where it proceeded to its arrangement.

This custom was maintained until the early twentieth century.

In 1874 the Guild introduced a new step made by one of the beautiful angels worshipers Francisco Salzillo made for the tabernacle of the Church of Saint John of God.

This figure was transformed for this angel in a professional fashion passion, the image agregándosele certainly an attribute of the Passion of Christ.

Years later, in 1894 the group holding the guild was enriched with a splendid rococo throne whose implementation was entrusted to the renowned woodcarver Don Juan Martínez Cantabella, paying for the rich work of the Virgin waitresses Bob and Dona Antonia Dolores Noguera.

The Murcia, always, have been linked affectionate and devoted to this picture, I always enjoyed the love and affection of the inhabitants of the city.

At the shelter and protection were among the other merchants of the downtown streets adjacent to the parish of San Bartolomé and the master craftsmen and goldsmiths, embroiderers, jewelers, etc., Whose studios were located in the vicinity of the temple.

Today parades on Good Friday night.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia