The X Guard Templar to the patron Virgin of Jumilla, Assumption, organized by the Association of the Templars of Murcia town famous for the temple of their wines, passed without event.
The milites Christi, faithful to the canonical calendar marks the beginning of the festivities, which sets the transfer of recumbent image of Our Lady of the Assumption, from its home, the church of St. Augustine (eighteenth century) to the church James the Greater, the Sunday before the start of the ninth *, for the second consecutive year supplied the absence of the image with a picture of the true virgin, before the Spanish Civil War of 1936, burned during the war, which was flanked by two watercolors by Arango, the Commander of Fine Arts of the Templars of Jumilla in the prison of Zuera (Zaragoza), representing the former mistress of Jumilla, Santa Maria de Gracia.
The Templars jumillanos planted the forecourt of the shrine to the art of the paintings of that commander, badges and flags quenching of 30 municipalities in Murcia sent by the municipal presidencies to form the Guard of Honour of the Virgin, in an act of civic participation to help spice jumillanas festivities in honor of Our Lady of the Assumption.
The ninth is 14 August.
Source: Templarios de Jumilla