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In Sewer Holy Wednesday is different.
Silence is accompanying the procession leaves at ten o'clock at night from the beautiful and iconic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption of the Barrio de Campoamor.
Procession of Silence and Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of the Good Death.
This is the most intimate procession comes from a neighborhood, as is the de Campoamor, a very short history in processions, but with the peculiarity of having the step that most deeply emotional and cove in the popular mood.
The Christ of the Good Death, that is worshiped daily in the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption, paraded for the first time at Easter 1955, is a wood carving and the Murcian sculptor Jose Noguera, as the former was a crucified Christ also plaster, which was replaced by is the image.
The actual throne was conducted last year by the children of the sculptor himself, the brothers Noguera.
The Brotherhood was founded in 1952.
The Christ of the Good Death runs like the rest of the images that are in Sewer procesionadas by the shoulders of his 67 Knights Portapasos, surrounded in the ranks of penitents by the 320 brothers who compose it, the 30 Children with a severe black gown and black satin cape also, weak lighting, the sound of drum roll of the 13 members that form the Third of Drums, along with the Women's Association of Silence formed by 20 women.
On their way through the streets of your itinerary: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Salvador de Madariaga street, avenue Catholic Kings Avenue Martinez Campos, Entrevías, High Street, Cervantes, Alfonso X the Wise and place of the Immaculate.
The street that runs in our population are off their street lights, and all those private, windows, etc.., Which for a few seconds waiting for Christ to pass with only the flashes of light from the throne itself.
Of particular beauty and deep religious sense and respect the input of the Christ of the Good Death, about one o'clock, Nazarenes stop at the square and make it a corridor, without drums, no music, no lights, only heard after the orders of the litter and the silent passage of portapasos.
Once in the door of the church and looking at the square a trumpet plays the familiar "call to prayer" and a hymn to Christ the Good Death are the only interruptions that silence has tonight.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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