The legion pays honors to his Christ in Malaga: “In Afghanistan he put his hands to save a partner”

In a bank, asleep on her mother, there is Antonio Garrido’s daughter. After a travel night they arrived at dawn to take place in the front row next to the door of the Hall of Thrones. Every year they see the transfer of the Christ of Mena from his home in Archena (Murcia). His uncles camped at that bank at ten o’clock at night and, after more than twelve waiting hours They saw the legion at the foot of their sacred protector to enthrone it for the procession.

Shortly after, about twelve o’clock, Gustavo Sanz and his son Francisco Javier Sanz arrived. On the fence they waited all morning and part of the morning to see the legion to perform its ritual. «We have been coming here for five years and Then we will go to Seville To see the early morning. It is a povence, but we have passion for Holy Week, ”added the father, while in Santo Domingo, before the open doors of the Hall of Thrones, a Saeta sounded spontaneously to the Virgin of Solitude.

In front of her she expected the Navy, formed to pay tribute to her protective loneliness, which is by a legend that goes back to the battle of Lepanto. The legion was farsang the “death boyfriend” In the port. In the landing of the fury, a patrolman high of the Spanish Navy.

From there they went down and formed in the port, before throwing themselves into the streets of Malaga. Thousands of people waited for them on the sidewalks. Awaiting them to see them cross the streets ahead in an instant, which is what allows the accelerated step to 160 steps per minute of the Legion. Thus until reaching the Plaza Fray Alonso de Santo Tomás, known as the esplanade of Santo Domingo.

«I’ve always seen it on TV. It is an important part of the history of Spain and I have always wanted to see it live since I was little, ”explained Cristina Sierra, who arrived from Ciudad Real At three in the morning to get a place privileged.

Before her and hundreds of congregates, the detachment of the Legion of the Third Alejandro Farnesio de Ronda arrived between cheers. Almería, Ceuta, Melilla and Ronda rotate every year to come to pay tribute to their protective Christ. «In Afghanistan they shot a partner and we could evacuate him. The Christ put his hands on us to save him. I come here to see it and see my colleagues, ”said Óscar Mendoza, ancient Cabo de la Legion, which served in Almería and Ronda for 15 years.

That is why every year the legion gives him honors. First with the guards to his Christ and then with his transfer before the procession. And they do it between the love of a city that lHOLET HOLY THURSDAY and that is filled with visitors just to see them. “I have always had the illusion of seeing it live,” said Joaquín Ramos, who arrived from Asturias only to see the transfer of the Christ of Good Death.

The first was the delivery of the banner of Christ of the Good Death by the third Alejandro Farnesio to the Third Gran Captain. Every year it is guarded by a third for foster faith in Christ within the troop. And at that time, the legionary creed began to be heard inside the chapel. The square was only a murmur, while the Legionary Knights, in silence, only with the sound of the boots on the floor of the chapel, approached the Christ to the door of the church.

The scripts were raised to receive it and bowed with the national anthem when the Christ went out to the square. Next to him in the form of an escort, they were waiting for the ‘death boyfriend’ to advance. There began to roar the foats of the platoon and the public. The Christ advances raised by his faithful soldiers. The legionary anthem and the square exploded in applause among martial honors.

After that, with the Christ in the center of the square, the Bishop Jesús Cataláasked for a prayer for the deceased. The Plaza prayed a father of ours before the crucified with crown of thorns and a bird Maria to the loneliness of Mena. They prayed those present to the Holders and received the blessing of the Bishop of Malaga, who wanted to follow his steps as pilgrims of Holy Thursday.

The Cornetín called to the touch of prayer. And the scripts rose with the Christ shown to the front as a sign of the sacrifice for the salvation of humanity. I pray the legion thus to his sacred protector and a spontaneous was heardor “Long live the king”before moving the Lord on the shoulders of the legionaries the road to the throne.

The rise of the Christ to its place of procession is made with a system of pulleys and rope Cover through the streets of Malaga for 248 men With white tunic, cingulum and black bibs with the shield of the Congregation of Mena.

Once enthroned, the square rumbled with the “legionaries to fight, legionaries to die” and the legionary creed, a prayer that Millán Astray inspired the samurais to bush to give their soldiers a deep sense of honor and sacrifice. “It is preferable to die in combat than to live as a coward”they shouted in the wind before the withdrawal of the square was ordered before the gaze of a crucified and honest Christ by those who entail their soul to their protection at the most complicated moment of its existence