Ecatepec, Méx. With multi-colored mats product of sawdust and painted sand that kind a whole lot of allegorical figures, put in within the streets of the city of San Pedro Xalostoc, neighbors carried out the procession of their patron saint San Pedro Apóstol alongside greater than a kilometer of streets within the downtown space of their neighborhood.
The colourful rugs and carpets are a practice courting again some 45 years, during which neighbors take to the streets to indicate their artwork utilizing the streets and avenues as a canvas.
The artisans of the multicoloured carpets are identified not solely in neighbouring municipalities and in a number of states of the nation, but in addition worldwide, the place they’ve participated with their works.
This Monday, a whole lot of residents took to the streets early to start making these items. In different years, they’d exit the night time earlier than, however this time the rain prevented them from doing so.
“It’s a number of work that takes us months and it offers us nice satisfaction to make the rugs and we make them with nice devotion. We use sawdust and white sand introduced from the mines of Huamantla in Tlaxcala, utilizing coloured anilines we give them the tone and colour that you just favor, they’re very vivid colours.
“Every neighborhood has its personal designs. In some we make shawls and mosaics which have figures of animals, butterflies, hummingbirds, horses, birds, bulls, relying on the neighborhood; others make floral or geometric figures,” stated Luis Antonio Martínez, from the Santa Cruz neighborhood in San Pedro Xalostoc.
For the residents, the making of the rugs which are used within the procession of their patron saint is an act of religion and devotion to provide thanks for a 12 months of well being and well-being: “It’s an act of religion that goes from technology to technology during which everybody participates with devotion, it’s an act of religion in honor of our Patron Saint asking him for well being for our households,” stated Luis Antonio.
“We made a colourful sawdust carpet to thank Saint Peter the Apostle for our work, for our well being, for the kids. All our neighbors agreed to cooperate to make it, we purchased the sawdust, we put it collectively and we painted it days earlier than.
“On the day of the procession we exit early into the streets to make the carpets, we make figures of flowers like calla lilies. It’s a custom that has been happening for 45 years and little by little the custom has been spreading and this 12 months the carpets are made in three days on the twenty ninth, the day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the normal pageant on July 1 and the eighth pageant,” stated Francisco Cruz Romero, from Belisario Domínguez Avenue.
The neighbors recalled that considered one of their most important participations with the rugs was through the go to of Pope Francis to Ecatepec, in February 2016.
At the moment’s celebration started with a mass within the parish of San Pedro and after 2:00 p.m. the procession started, beginning within the church atrium the place a multi-colored sawdust carpet with flower figures was positioned.
The non secular determine of the patron saint and the procession then superior, following every of the streets adorned with the carpets. There was wind music and fireworks.
The celebrations, which started on June 20 with the novenas, will culminate on July 7 with one other procession on carpets within the southern a part of the city, along with music concert events and a well-liked truthful.
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– 2024-07-02 11:42:42
