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Blanca celebrates the traditional "Despedía de las Animas" (07/01/2017)

The parochial church of San Juan Evangelista hosted last night the traditional Despedía de las Animas that the Brotherhood of the Blessed Ánimas de Blanca carries out.

It is an ancestral tradition that is celebrated in the municipality on the day of Reyes taking its beginning in the Chapel of "La Milagrosa".

Then the streets near the Church of San Juan Evangelista are crossed and once there, the squad is placed at the foot of the Altar and initiates the Parade sung in two parts.

The first one formed by the couplets of prayers that the souls of Purgatory make to be rescued and the second in which the saints are asked to thank the saints for the end of the sufferings of these souls.

Once the act is finished, the phrase "Health for next year" is recited.

It is not known exactly when this tradition began in the municipality of Blanca, but it has its origin in the doctrine of Purgatory, a place where the souls of the righteous who die with a stain of sin are purified by expiating their faults before being admitted into the Heaven.

Blessed Souls are the souls of the deceased who are in Purgatory hoping to redeem their sins to meet God.

The quadrilles of Animas appeared with the purpose of helping the souls to leave the Purgatory, and they requested for them by means of the "coplas animeras", verses of four octosyllabic verses, with rhyme assonant or consonant in the second and fourth, being free first and third.

In White, a group, presided over by the banner with the painting of the Virgin of the Carmen, lawyer of the Purgatory, crosses the streets of the town, during the dates next Christmas, singing and playing the "coplas animeras".

The alms that are collected are destined to aid for the seminary, for the masses of the deceased and for the poor.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca

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