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Lorquí Holy Week is Holy Thursday morning, April 21, an important appointment.

The day starts early with a prayer of Lauds (9 hours) and afternoon and will celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper (18 hours).

By nightfall, the procession will arrive at Calvary (21 hours), with their penitents dressed in white and black, purple, green, white and maroon ... It sizes parade Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno and Our Lady of Sorrows ( popularly known as "La Dolorosa"), two popular works of sculptor Francisco Salzillo Murcia, while at midnight the Holy Hour will be held for adults and youth.

It is recalled that the local council, with support from the Department of History of Art at the University of Murcia, has asked the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the regional government's statement "of Cultural Interest (BIC) for both sizes and the St. Joseph and Child Jesus (also Salzillo).

Unlocking Santo

On Good Friday, April 22, is the great day of Holy Week ilorcitana, which highlights the act of "Unlocking the Holy."

An ancient tradition dating back to 1700 and takes place every Friday shortly before the start of the procession of the Holy Burial. "

Will be at 21 hours when the brothers of the Confraternity of the Holy Christ of Forgiveness sag figure of a Christ-articulated highlight of the celebrations in the town, and go up the throne to take after a procession (21:30 pm) along the remaining steps and pictures escort the recumbent figure of Christ.

A parade that will take part in the footsteps of the Virgen de los Dolores, dressed in Soledad (Confraternity of Our Lady of Sorrows), of San Juan Evangelista (Confraternity of the same name), of Santa Maria Magdalena (Brotherhood of the Risen Christ ) of Christ's Forgiveness (of the Brotherhood of the same name) and the Empty Cross (Brotherhood of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno).

And the acts completed, as is tradition, Easter Sunday, April 24.

At 9 am the Church of St. James will host the Mass of Alba, preamble to the glorious meeting of local fraternities and joyous procession of the Resurrection (10 hours) that will fill the streets of Lorquí of joy and satisfaction.

In conclusion these days of tradition and religious devotion, to officiate at the Mass noon Mayor of Resurrection, the last act of the Holy Week ilorcitana.

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Last Friday, April 15 St. James's Church hosted the presentation of the restoration of the image of "Dulce Nombre de Jesus", chaired by the president of local Guilds Higher Cabildo, Francisco García Marco, and involving and invited the local mayor, Dolores Garcia Villa, and the councilman of Culture, Antonio Asensio.

Subsequently held the Mass of the Brotherhoods of St. John the Evangelist and Our Lady of Sorrows, in which the Choir Rondalla and Lorquí and held a levee on the Dolores.

And the processions in the town ilorcitano began on Palm Sunday, parades with their neighbors take to the streets to show their faith.

Early morning Mass was celebrated at St. James Church, Preamble to the massive blessing of palms and olive branches that led to the Palm Sunday procession.

A parade involving hundreds of people each year and that each year the town recalls Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

A completion was celebrated at noon in the same temple the Palm Sunday Mass and Palms.

The sound and the joy of the drums again Lorquí feel in the evening on Easter Monday, April 18th with the celebration of the "drums of Easter 2011," the municipality, who left to the sound of the beating of Freedom Square to tour until midnight downtown.

The participants, who surpassed the one hundred and among those who could see a significant presence of children, filled the town's lively and fun din of drums, star of one of the most popular events of Holy Week ilorcitana.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorquí