The president of the Community, Fernando López Miras attended this afternoon to the concession of the title of 'Mayor Perpetua de Archena' to the patron saint of the municipality, the Blessed Virgin of Health.
The regional chief executive stressed that this appointment "demonstrates the vocation, devotion and passion of an entire municipality with the Blessed Virgin of Health, which 80 years ago, by popular demand, named patron", adding that " it is a sign of respect for customs and values ​​and how from the institutions these values ​​can also be respected. "
At the Eucharist and subsequent conferral of the title of 'Mayor Perpetua de Archena' to the Blessed Virgin of Health attended by about a thousand people who, later, accompanied in procession to the patron saint of the municipality to the church of San Juan Bautista.
Source: CARM