05:36 • 08 ene. 2022
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updated at 08:59 • 08 ene. 2022
In may 1976 marked the 25th anniversary of the coronation of the Blessed Virgin of the Sea and the Brotherhood had the idea that the commemorative proclamation would be given in tandem by the mayor of Almería in 1951, Emilio Pérez Manzuco, and a boy from that time; that child was me. It was in the month of May in La Patrona. Don Emilio was already very ill due to his illness, in fact he died not long afterwards, so the town criers spoke seated at a table in the presbytery before hundreds of people from Almeria who filled the temple, whose doors were left open to make room for more. people and the suffocating heat of that day. During the wait in the Pérez-Manzuco sacristy, I he was telling some anecdotes, such as the problem that existed when Antonio Peregrín Zurano and his wife María Abad García wanted to donate to the Virgen del Mar the plot of their farm, on the beachfront, where the hermitage was going to be erected, and the legal impossibility that occurred when the Notary public warned that the Brotherhood lacked the legal entity to accept it and it had to be the City Council who received it on behalf of the city. With a project by Guillermo Langle The hermitage was blessed by Bishop Alfonso Ródenas on January 12, 1953, after its construction at the expense of the municipal coffers for a value of 24,812.81 pesetas. Now it has been renovated, especially in the colors of its facade.
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