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"I wanted to reflect humility, sobriety and simplicity that characterize the Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Peace".
With these words expressed by the designer of the poster for Cehegín Easter 2013, Christopher Abellán, conveys the idea that the work, based on a photograph of Vicente López Mascolor company in which the image appears holder of the corporation Holy Wednesday Nazarene surrounded and aided by Nazarenes brothers wearing the brown robe.
"The presence of the Nazarene is a tribute to this indispensable figure in the Easter, as almost never have appeared on posters and without them there would be processions," said Christopher Abellán.
In the poster presentation, held at the House of Culture in the night of Wednesday 20 February with the mayor, José Soria, the regional deputy Gregorio Morales, the president of the Central Board of Guilds, Alfonso Gil, several councilors municipal and a large representation of penitential confraternities, the designer explained that photography was performed in a natural as a stone quarry is located at the foot of the Peña Rubia.
"We have chosen this place to transfer the idea of ​​Golgotha, so it appears the wasteland, cracked and dry. Plays the idea of ​​desolation after the death of Christ," he added.
Furthermore, Abellán said that with this work wanted to announce "Semana Santa ceheginera both overall and the Brotherhood of Christ of Peace, in charge of making this year's poster."
For his part, President of the Central Board of Guilds said that this act "opens the entire space of time devoted to meditation on the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ, a time that will culminate on March 31 "and, referring to the lineup, he added that" the great lesson that gives us is the belief that Jesus is God. "
Lastly intervened Mayor, who, in addition to referring to the "hardship" of this year, was keen to stress the "efforts made by the guilds" to go out, and ensured that the City will accompany the brothers in all his actions, cults and processions.
Regarding the poster, Soria has rated as "excellent" and said that "is alive and conveys much."
The poster presentation has been accompanied by a careful staging organized by the Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Peace, who wanted to offer some of the feelings that live on the streets of the Old Town on the evening of Holy Wednesday.
The presence of Nazarenes with their habits, the dry roll of drums, the candlelight and the smell of incense have created a special atmosphere in the hall of the House of Culture.
The event was presented by Assumption Guillamón, who made a brief historical tour Cehegín Easter, speaking from its origins in the sixteenth century with the founding of the first guilds to the present day through the splendor of the eighteenth, the early nineteenth decline or resurgence at the end of this century, and referred to the foundation of the Confraternity of the Christ of Peace in 1975, the first corporation Nazarene in having a woman president,
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín
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