Mazarrón Miracle Day celebrated Tuesday.
This time the event has enjoyed an exceptional event because for the first time a woman has led the city act as the highest figure.
Alicia Jimenez has met with tradition by reading the text that vow renewal of the town of Mazarrón of the Immaculate became official.
It was in the sanctuary of the patron with an illustrious visit, the President of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, along with the assistance of other members of the government team and the municipal corporation.
In his reading, Alicia Jimenez made mention of the historical particularity of the moment: "Immaculate Conception, today I thank thee candles we in the Villa and before your image today for the first time in the history of Mazarrón, you have allowed Speaker is a woman, and not only of my hopes, dreams and hopes, but those of an entire people, yours. "
The mayor also had words for those who seek progress and who need help: "... that are not in situations of exclusion whatsoever We have to take the example of the generations before us, because they laid the foundation of our. region and municipality. "
Alicia Jiménez, on behalf of all Mazarron, has ceded the baton of the Villa of the patron: "Mother Most Pure, I now give the baton of the Villa, which as expressed on the day of my inauguration, not mine to me but to all Mazarron and leave it in your hands to perform again, all of us, the miracle of opening our hearts as possible to offer others the best within us. "
The event took place during the course of a Mass celebrated by the parish priest of San Andrés and San Antonio, Francisco José Hernández, attended also by representative members of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception.
After the end of Mass, the faithful have received on leaving the temple as a hard copy of the vote parchment read by the mayor.
This afternoon at 17:00 hours will be held the traditional offering of flowers.
The procession will start from the hospice where food donation takes place.
Each donation will be appreciated with a flower that will later at the foot of the Immaculate are placed in the sanctuary.
The collected food will be distributed to needy families in Mazarrón, thanks to the collaboration of Caritas.
The Miracle Day celebrations end with a Mass at 19:00 at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
At the end there will be the blessing and distribution of oil and subsequent Virgin procession with the statue, visiting the churches of San Andrés and San Antonio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón