A Corpus without tents, without military honors and with fright

A Corpus without tents, without military honors and with fright

Firefighters shored up an altar in El Salvador that threatened to fall on the public to the passage of the procession.

"Excellent" Bishop Asenjo yesterday described what has been their first Corpus as titular Archbishop of Seville, and that his inexperience played a trick on him and handed an empty envelope to the six as a reward for their dances before the Blessed Sacrament. You should have seen the face of astonishment of the children when they opened the envelope and found the generosity of the gift of Bishops. Solved the mess, the prelate said at the end of the procession he was "very impressed" by the aesthetic beauty of the procession, the "respect" with which the public received the Custody in the streets and the "mercy" with which many people prayed, kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament. "Outstanding, to the height, of course, the Corpus of Cordoba and Toledo, but the sheets are missing here," summed up the archbishop in a hasty assessment of the celebration.



Yesterday was a Corpus without national anthem, the honors or the Blessed Sacrament, following the entry into force of the Military Honors regulation adopted by the Government on 20 May. At the exit of the Custody of Arfe by the Puerta de San Miguel de la Catedral, the only bars of the anthem that sounded-and even three times, came from the cathedral organ, not the Music Unit of the Sub-inspection General Army South (former Soria 9) that brought up the rear. "The thing is that we had been warned and we would have another band," he complained at the end of the procession the canon Luis Rueda, master of ceremonies at the Cathedral. Together with the Archbishop of Seville, also participated in the procession, the bishop of Bucharest, Ioan Robu, displaced land of Seville Spain to greet the bishop of Seville and see how it develops the procession of Corpus Christi in other countries.

In a celebration, the Feast of Corpus, subject to swings in public, but thankfully alive and rooted, thousands of Seville a year paid homage to the Blessed participating in the procession, or going to watch from the sidewalks, in a morning heat bearable thanks to the gusts of wind that soothed the excesses of the thermometer. It was just the wind to blame for the most striking event of the day because, as a result of a gust of air, the altar erected by the Brotherhood of the Seven Words on the Plaza del Salvador was about to rush the watching public in The procession then sitting in their seats. The area, near the residence of San Juan de Dios, was acordanada immediately and underpinned the altar with steps, keeping a dangerous unstable equilibrium. The incident led to the action of the firemen that while the procession ran across the plaza del Salvador, sought to reassure the structure with ropes. With the face of great disgust, the older brother of the Seven Words, Antonio Sanchez Padilla, on site explained that the weight of the two sides bands that supported the huge canopy, together with a gust of wind caused the mishap that caused a logical movement in the Plaza del Salvador. Fortunately there was only a scare.

Joining the procession of the new stature of St. Angela made by the sculptor José Antonio Navarro Arteaga for the Cathedral of Seville was one of the main novelties of the procession, which started out at 8.30 am by the Puerta de San Miguel, the pair at the altar of the Jubilee was beginning the pontifical mass. Jaime, the boy who opened the procession, sounding the bell that hung around his neck, he lived his last as carráncano Corpus. "I meet next month and 15 years."

Although there are guilds that take their deputies to order section representation, this year have not been as massive as in other editions, highlighting the most numerous of the Macarena, the Gran Poder, La Estrella, San Benito, and the Gypsies Museum. In general, the attire of the participants is in keeping with the solemnity of the celebration, but still continue to appreciate the absence of ties and beige suits, both of them as they (being told otherwise, the council Teresa socialist Florido, who wore a striking tone model oil).

Mayor Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirín, lived his last as the first mayor Corpus facing the protest carried out by the local police during the parade that led to the Municipal Corporation from the Consistory of the Cathedral. The passage of the Custody of Arfe spent just under an hour and a half to complete the course. At 12.13 pm, after the parade of the Company of the Army, the Custody of the Blessed Sacrament was engulfed by the dark cathedral.