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The official ceremony of delivery of the Gold Medal of the City of Molina de Segura to the Illustrious Confraternity of the Holy Christ of Sorrows took place today Tuesday 23 November in the Meeting Room of City Hall.
Attended by the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, along with members of the Municipal Corporation and President of the Illustrious Confraternity of the Holy Christ of Sorrows, Juan López Riquelme.
This brotherhood celebrates in 2010 the 25 th anniversary of its revival.
It was the first Holy Week processions in molinense, after restoring it in 1986, which is why the Brotherhood is known as mother.
It is composed of about 400 brothers, dressed in purple robes and black.
Its headquarters is located since 2002 in Orchard Street Fayre.
Last March, the regular plenary session of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Molina de Segura passed a motion of Mayor of the town for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the city to the Illustrious Confraternity of the Holy Christ of Sorrows .
The text of the agreement is as follows: "Giving the municipal institutional distinction Gold Medal Molina de Segura to the Illustrious Confraternity of the Holy Christ of Sorrows, as a way of witnessing the public recognition of their efforts to recovery and consolidation of Holy Week molinense. "
The Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Sorrows was founded in 1945 by the Brotherhood of Labrador City.
At the time, walked the streets a single throne, the Cristo de las Penas, who left the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption.
It was refounded in 1985, recovering next year molinense Holy Week, which according to some writings, has its beginnings in the seventeenth century.
During the last 25 years, the Brotherhood has made significant actions, such as the restoration of the Hermitage of San Roque, acquisition of new thrones for images of the Holy Christ of Sorrows and Our Lady of Sorrows, the restoration of the image of the Christ Penalties, acquisition of new images, etc.
Every Easter, this brotherhood organizes the Procession of Silence, which starts from the Hermitage of San Roque, with images: the Fall of Jesus of Nazareth, hand-made imagery Socuéllamos Salmerón (Ciudad Real), which represents one of the Jesus falls on the road to Calvary, the Sorrows, the sculptor Gil molinense Barnabas, and the Holy Christ of Sorrows, head of the Brotherhood and Barnabas also work Gil.
All in the midst of a strict order and a moving silently in the darkness of the night molinense, punctuated only by the sound of arrows at various points along the route.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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