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On Tuesday, the San Roque Church in Sewell, will open its parishioners to worship again, after the rehabilitation work carried out therein, from 19:00 pm with the blessing of same and a Solemn Mass Bishop to officiate Lorca Planes, bishop of the Diocese and will be concelebrated by Bishop emeritus, D.
Javier Azagra and 18 priests who were born in Sewell and those who were pastors in the same.
The event also will be attended by Mayor of Sewell, Lazarus Mellado and members of the Municipal Corporation.
Rehabilitation works have been carried out have had a budget of over € 700,000, where the City Sewer, by the Plenum will provide between 2008 to 2017, 41,000 euros each for their funding, possibility of extending and increasing the corresponding CPI in each of fiscal years, based on the Plenum adopted in April last year, making sure a minimum contribution of € 410,000 municipal, which must be added the first 90 000 euro project involved the study of works which are carried out in 2006.
The rest has been through contributions made by the local associations and groups in Sewell, through hard work undertaken by the Commission on the work that was created to empower them.
Also includes a number of improvements to exterior lighting and interior arrangements surrounding streets and that more than 15,000 €.
Since June 2008 work began in the parish of San Roque, have been living important moments for the District of San Roque, especially the interest in carrying out rehabilitation works of the Church, that needed a emergency restoration actions to preserve them in conditions appropriate to their purpose as a building of worship and also as a building of historical and cultural value.
The mayor of Sewell, Lazarus Mellado, "we fulfill the commitment to the people of Sewer and neighbors of Barrio San Roque, in carrying out these important works of rehabilitation of rehabilitation of this Church, located in the neighborhood oldest in our town, where Sewell was originally growing, with the agreement signed with the diocese and with the resolutions adopted in plenary by the Municipal Corporation.
Given this sensitivity Hall raised with the generous outpouring of support and also of the parish, neighbors and other associations, shops and businesses in our town, is what made us adopt in plenary session in April 2008, support City economic to carry out this ambitious and necessary project for execution of works, budgeted at more than seven hundred thousand euros, of which over 410,000 will come from city coffers over a period at least ten years.
This amount is what comes under that agreement, we signed on 8 May 2008, together with the bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, D.
Juan Antonio Reig Pla.
By opening to the history of the Church of San Roque, indicate that began as a hermitage to be subsequently adjusted to it and be one of the important parish churches have Alcantarilla, dating from the late eighteenth century, being on a hill, which according to tradition toshers and county said that "the front steps of San Roque are the same height as the vane of the tower of the Cathedral of Murcia."
Inside you can find the image of Our Lady of Hope Noguera sculptor of this century and a beautiful picture of the "Immaculate Conception" by an anonymous author of the school of Murillo - or that was his style - from the early XVIII and belonging to the City Sewer.
A New Church
The important work that has been made in the Church of San Roque has brought to light new and valuable features inherent in the temple, which have been hidden for years.
In addition to the ground, 20 centimeters below the previous one, were discovered previously sealed windows and now, once opened, allowing the temple with a high degree of brightness in the interior.
In the field the team that led the architect of the Bishop, Juan de Dios de la Hoz has recovered a square hole in the side walls of the Church, called weep holes, which are holes that where a building stands serve to introduce them a beam or horizontal tree trunk to form part of a scaffold, dating these to the eighteenth century, when construction of the Church of San Roque.
The bell tower has also undergone a major transformation since has pulled the metal frame that crowned him and who were the bells.
Now, those bells have been placed, once restored also the same, in its original site under the clock, also rehabilitated.
The Church launches new public address system, windows and a main altar that is the image of San Roque and Chair of the altar, made in the workshops of the Sons of Esteban Jimenez, Baza (Granada), cedar wood Brazil, burnished gold-coated in gold funds alive and marmots.
Also, the Brotherhood of St. John the Evangelist and the Brotherhood of Penance, has made two altars where their images are processions in Semana Santa, San Juan (Domingo de Ramos) and Esperanza Macarena (Tuesday, in the Procession of Penance).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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