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From 11:30 am in the morning the Church of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de Puebla de Soto, festive attire for the celebration of Holy Mass of Candlemas, traditional festival held the weekend following its festival, which is February 2.

This tradition dates back to 1726, following an ancient tradition in which the Virgin of Mercy, the patroness of this population "Mass Exit" under the Rules of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, in presenting the Child Jesus in the Church and ancestral custom Purification was done after delivery, and which represents the maximum dedication feast of the Candelaria.

For many years the procession, much smaller than traditional de la Merced, in the month of September to take to the streets after having celebrated the Holy Mass, beginning at half past eleven, will be officiated by new local priest, Francisco Sanchez, where at the start of it, women who have given birth during the past year, flocking to the church and bring their young children to be presented to the Virgin in the Mass and the blessing .

The Virgin is dressed differently from the rest of the year holding the Infant Jesus - Roque Lopez, 1797 - a suit of lace, silk and diapers as for a traditional baptism huertano earlier times.

She wears white lace mantilla and white lace brides typical vegetable garden, and in his right hand the artistic candle Valencia.

The throne is decorated in an original way, not only carries roses, carnations or gladioli but their feet two doves or white doves as the Gospel of Luke and the most original, adorn the throne with eight white-tarts, pies, for each of the eight Stewards of the Confraternity of the Holy Brotherhood, popularly Lord, that made a kind of "Baptism of the Child" from time immemorial have always gone hand pies the throne as if it were a celebration in The Presentation in the Temple and the Purification of the Mother.

Certainly this day most of the dessert cakes and people are estimated at more than one hundred Sunday tasted that in their respective homes all Puebloans, this succulent dish inviting people who come to the conclusion from other locations, others do not pray and put a finger to the throne and they will start to enjoy them as well.

In 1991 Spanish television echoed so beautiful ceremony and conveyed the Procession and Mass, precisely in the year that marked the "550 Anniversary of the Legal Foundation of Puebla de Soto - de1440 Town Charter."

Scheduled programming:

Saturday, February 4

21:00:

Dance of the cake or La Candelaria, in the Social Centre for the Elderly.

With tasting pies, champagne and cider.

In the same drawings and delivery are made of cake.

Organized by the Municipal Board and the Senior Center Puebla de Soto.

Sunday, February 5

11:30 am:

Home of the Holy Mass in the Church of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes.

In the course of it, there will be the presentation of children born in the last year, not just the people but of all those who want to attend this rite from other parts of Murcia.

12:30 pm:

There is a short procession of the Virgen de la Candelaria, in the streets Our Lady of Mercy, Mayor, Miguel Caballero, Bando de la Huerta, Constitution, Mayor, Bitterness, San Antonio and back to the parish.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla