Everything is ready in the San Antón neighborhood to start today bagging the traditional rolls that are given away starting Friday at the booth that the Murcia City Council installs in front of the hermitage of the same name. Yesterday, at the Ricardo bakery and confectionery in the neighborhood, whose owner prepares and gives away the sourdough with which the rolls are made every year, the volunteers finished kneading the thousands of pieces that will be distributed until Wednesday, January 17, Saint Anton's Day.
“We have distributed 100,000 units, but this year we will know the quantity when the bags are prepared,” explains Lola Mena, the parish secretary of San Antón. Each one usually carries four or five rolls, which, as tradition dictates, “someone has to give you and you have to carry them in your purse so that you never lack food in the house; “One is enough.”
Lola comments that this custom has already transcended the borders of the neighborhood and Murcia, and that many people come to the booth to take several bags and then distribute the rolls among friends and family from other towns in the Region and other cities outside. . “We have to be careful in the distribution, because the rolls must arrive until the 17th.”
The blessing of the pieces will take place on Friday the 12th in the afternoon at the hermitage, after the parade that will travel through several streets of the neighborhood, in which the participants, dressed as orchardists and to the sound of a band, will carry esparto baskets The biscuits. Afterwards, the booth will open and the distribution will begin.
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