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The Mayor of Archena, Patricia Fernandez, will officially name in the presence of the Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena-Murcia, Monsignor Lorca Planes, the Patron Saint of Archena, the Virgin of Health, Perpetual Mayor of the Villa of Archena, the next March 24, at 6:00 p.m.
The Mayor has assured that the legal and bureaucratic process that will have to conclude with the official and institutional appointment of the Employer of Archena, as 'Perpetual Mayor' of the Villa de Archena has already begun months ago.
Patricia Fernandez has also reported that the commission for this important appointment is formed, in addition to the first municipal authority, the Councilor for Culture, Mari Carmen Alcolea, the parish priests of Archena, Alfonso Alburquerque and Israel Pérez, the presidents of the 2 Brotherhoods of the Virgen de la Salud, a person in charge of Balneario de Archena, and two municipal technicians ..
The Mayor affirmed at the time that "this is an unprecedented distinction in the five-hundred-year history of the municipality of Archena, with which with this appointment we want from the local municipal institution to translate, honor and, above all, distinguish, in the most grandiose and transcendent that allows municipal regulations all the devotion, popular clamor and affection that has been for many decades on the part of the Archenera population to our Patron. "
The Mayor of Archena decreed to initiate this process of the file for this official appointment, as it is contemplated in the Regulation of Honors and Distinctions of the City council of Archena, already months ago.
The Virgin of Health, which is venerated during the year in her hermitage of the Balneario de Archena, was popularly acclaimed Patrona de Archena, in a mass that was held in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento on the first Sunday after the definitive end of the Spanish Civil War , in 1939. The Patroness spent the years of the struggle hidden in the lower part of the crypt of her hermitage so as not to be destroyed.
Later, on October 11, 1954, the Bishop of the Diocese, at that time, Ramón Sanahuja, crowned her Patron Saint in another popular and campaign mass that was officiated in the Avenue del Carril.
The festivities, which are also celebrated in his honor, take place on the dates of the commemoration of the Corpus and in September, during the Octave, on the occasion of its annual feast.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena
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