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The size of our Christ of Miners, which marks a century of existence in the year 2013, has been received with full honors Sunday in La Union, following the restoration process of the image over recent months has had to make because the Autonomous Community of the state of disrepair that it showed.
The Christ who has come to the shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary carried on the shoulders of his knights portapasos, was received with ringing of bells and under the sound of the national anthem by the President of the Region of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, who proceeded to make repayment of the size of your group president, Jose Sanchez, all in the presence of the Big Brother of the Brotherhood, Sunday Alajarín, and our mayor, Francisco Bernabé.
Later Christ has been placed on the high altar and a Mass was held in his honor Minera to commemorate the centenary, in which Flemish liturgical songs have run on behalf of the singer Encarnación Fernández, the only woman to win two Mining Lamps Cante de las Minas, and who was accompanied on guitar by Antonio Muñoz Fernandez, Mining and Bordon winner of our contest official guitarist jondo.
The image of Christ of Miners was carved in 1913 by the Valencian sculptor José Gerique and during its first decades of stay in La Union was first known as Christ of the Fire and then as Christ of the Red Cross, until He advocated Christ certainly as miners in 1947.
Next spring is intended to carry out a cultural week to commemorate the anniversary, which aims to deepen the religious, social and cultural rights has meant the Christ figure of the miners in the Union.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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