The celebration of Good Friday yesterday marked the real beginning of the Holy Week of Eagles.
A day in which religion, art and culture came together with the feeling of a whole town waiting for the moment when the doors of the parish of San José were opened to see out his patroness, the image holder Venerada and illustrious Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Our Lady the Virgin of Sorrows known among the aquiline as the Blue Paso.
The festive day came, as tradition, preceded by the serenade, as every year, provided the holder of Aquilegia Musical Patronage Francisco Diaz Romero to the Sorrowful and culminated with the anthem of the city Eagles, Mediterranean paradise and a band exciting collection of the Virgin to the applause of a whole people.
La Serenata besides premiere of the new choir of the Board which featured a musical repertoire accompanied by the magnificent voice of Juanjo Berenguer served.
As early yesterday morning, the day known as Good Friday was beginning with a solemn Mass concelebrated during which the mayor of Eagle, Mari Carmen Moreno, received the medal of honor of the Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Our Lady the Virgin of the Dolores.
A distinction, the maximum that can offer the Brotherhood, which the mayor received very excited hands older brother, Jose Caceres.
After Mass came one of the most anticipated moments of the day: the aquiline Fernando Gallego, secretary of the Royal Illustrious and Fervent Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno and the Virgin of Solitude, offered the opening speech of Easter.
Gallego made his exaltation with a speech emotionally charged and personal experiences of this aquiline linked from childhood to the Passion Week of the town which was interrupted several times by applause from all attendees.
After the opening speech came the most colorful moment of the day: the wreath in which thousands of aquiline, dressed in costumes huertanos, honored with flowers to his patroness;
a gesture that was accompanied by the performance of the Friends of the Traditions.
At night and shoulders of their bearers image holder Step Azul through the streets of the town until after twelve o'clock, at which time the Dolorosa returned to his temple where it will remain until next Friday, when, he accompanied the rest of Holy Week Brotherhoods of Eagles, will procesionar through the streets of the town that built in Patrona in 1,855.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas