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During the days 16, 17, 18 and 19 September took place in Barbastro (Huesca), the XXIII National Meeting of Brotherhoods of Semana Santa, which involved representatives from the Central Board of the Brotherhood of Jumilla, as reported in a press release.
More than 500 brothers and representatives of 82 cities in Spain have been present at this meeting, which has developed six papers and two round tables held in the Congress Center Barbastro.
The presence of Jumilla, headed by the president of the JCHSS was strongly represented by four members of the Central Board and three brothers from different fraternities.
We had a personal space, where there was a major promotion of Holy Week and especially the 600 anniversary.
In this event could see different projections and were distributed to all attendees, a lot that included the book of Easter 2010, a selection of tourist programs in Jumilla, a generic program of Holy Week, the programming of the 600 anniversary and wonderful booklet on 'The Great Burial', published for the occasion.
Finally, and in the presentations section of highlights for 2011, the day of sábado18, President of the Board, talked about the development of the 600 anniversary, with special emphasis on 'The Great Burial', which made a complete description, noting that the procession will read "five centuries of imagery, 23 sculptors, 34 steps and 67 images, figures caused great excitement among all attendees.
He closed his speech the projection of a video, released just for this occasion, which through the Gospel texts, it shows all the imagery that could be seen at this historic procession.
For its part, the XXIII National Meeting of Brotherhoods of Semana Santa, the lectures were brilliantly developed by speakers at a great height, and the Bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logrońo, Juan José Omella, presented a paper on "charitable Dimension -social Fraternities, "the archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Seville, Cardinal Carlos Amigo, spoke on" The guilds and the social environment in the transmission of the Gospel ", the vicar general of the diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, Pedro Escartin gave a presentation on "Catechesis of the processions. The word of the Image" and the editor of the weekly "El Alba", Gonzalo Altozano, he did on "The social impact of the message brother."
Already in the last day, the director of the Information Office of Opus Dei, Manuel Garrido, spoke on "New communication technologies as a means of evangelization" and closed the program the writer José Antonio Adell Castan, who spoke on " Easter in Aragon.
The round tables complete the program with current issues as "social involvement and commitment of the brothers" and "The World Youth Day," noting the large turnout of participants in them.
On the last day of the meeting, in addition to reading the conclusions, took place on the seat of the XXIV National Meeting to be held next year in Crevillente, and an extraordinary procession, which could see a small sample what is Barbastro Easter.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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