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The San Blas festival held on Sunday February 3, and that leaves a weekend of intense activity in the place of the same name, in Santiago de la Ribera, dates back to the sixteenth century.
It was then, when the Monks Trinitarios reach the area called Cala-Vera (now Skull) where there was a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist that the monks would under the patronage of San Blas.
Devotion to the Christian martyr, doctor and bishop, who lived in the third century, and who was beheaded during the Roman persecution of Christians has endured over time for centuries among the locals, fed, until today, for their patronage in throat diseases.
The image of a San Blas mud, those sold during the pilgrimage, hung on the headboard of children is repeated in the local collective imagination for generations.
The image, which sought to maintain throughout the year, aimed to safeguard, especially the smaller throat diseases.
The pilgrimage as we know it today, with the transfer of the image of San Blas, from the church of Santiago de la Ribera began in the early '80s, when San Blas image still lay in a chapel located on a property particular.
Since then, the San Blas appointment became popular a while made huge marches neighbors mobilized to build a public chapel building is over a few meters of the original shrine of the great pine forest that hosts every year thousands of people.
Today is a festival declared of Regional Tourist Interest attracting audiences throughout the region, and other points in and out of the Region of Murcia.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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