The California Brotherhood held its Cabildo de los Dátiles yesterday Monday, shortly before the Piedad marraja came out. It was in a room of the Casino de Cartagena attended by a hundred people. This meeting served to harangue members of the brotherhood to give their best in their five processions. And for the Californios to bring up the problems that, according to them, the Marraja Brotherhood has in the church of Santo Domingo. “The makos are going to have to end up doing the Miserere – their main act of Lent – in the Fish Market, or at the bottom of the sea, because they are no longer wanted even on land,” said the main Californian steward, Joaquín Ortega. .
The older brother of the brotherhood, Juan Carlos de la Cerra, delved into this situation, saying that “the marrajos consider the church of Santo Domingo as theirs, when all they have is a chapel that they bought from the Dominicans.” Thus, they recalled some recent words from the chaplain of this military temple on Calle Mayor, who, according to the Californios, commented at a celebration that Santo Domingo “was not the preserve of anyone and is open to all brotherhoods.”
The Secretary General of the Californios, Juan Clemente Martínez, spoke at the town hall about the “provocations” of the mako grenadiers after midnight with the first seconds of Good Friday on the night of the Meeting. “There are times when I want to close the door of the church of Santa María and that no mako enter on Holy Thursday,” the older Californian brother said forcefully. And he warned that “the purple ones will leave at two in the morning in a procession on Good Friday if we Californios have left. Because unlike them, we are not afraid to be in a procession until three in the morning, like on Holy Wednesday, because thousands of people wait to sing the Hail to the California Virgin of First Sorrow.
Regarding the schedules, the Californios put their finger on the sore spot about the changes that the makos have made this year “to gain public”: such as the advance of the departure of the Holy Burial procession on Friday, which begins an hour before (20 hours) and the change of route of the Meeting Night. The butler “gave wax” also to politicians: «This year there are many more politicians in the processions. Could it be that there are elections? There are so many that we are going to make a California group just for the authorities. We are going to call it the ‘Expolio’”.
Prayer for Domingo Bastida
Not everything was pique with the purple ones, since the Cabildo de los Dátiles began with an Our Father and a Hail Mary that the chaplain Francisco de Asís Pagán prayed aloud together with the rest of the brothers for the health of the former mako’s older brother, Domingo Bastide. “When he was an older brother, we made a great friendship and he is a great person, so I ask that all the brothers keep him in our prayers,” De la Cerra said sadly.
On the other hand, the Californios criticized that the makos keep four thrones in Santa María since before Friday of Dolores, as well as the “excess” and “saturation” that the transfers of thrones are causing. “We are going to have to put our script, Domingo Fernández, to direct the traffic,” one of those present ironized. The distribution among the four brotherhoods of the money for the chairs that are installed in the parades also came to light. The Californios reproached that the makos “threatened” to break it and redo it once already agreed, having to be “about” to convene an extraordinary session of the Board of Brotherhoods in the middle of Holy Week.
The Californian groups of the apostles San Pedro and San Juan celebrate today Tuesday two acts of recognition and delivery of distinctions. The San Pedro group will start it at 12 noon in the Arsenal cannon workshops, while the San Juan group will do so at 1 pm in the Artillery Park.
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