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The Night of the Child, abaranera party par excellence, celebrated in the town on January 6.

Throughout the day and late into the night, the image of the Child Jesus visits all the houses in the village to bless the homes in this county.

"The origin of this custom must be sought in the requests for handouts that were animeros to offer Mass and light to the souls in Purgatory", as published by the official chronicler of the Villa, Jose David Molina Temperate (Carcelén Herrero, M. and Barranco Sánchez, M. (Coord.) 2001: Murcia every inch IV Official Reporters Association of the Region of Murcia, ISBN-13: 978-84-690-6951-6, pp. 19-21).

"They offered to change the image of the Child charity to worship him with a kiss" - he writes.

"In the beginning and until the early twentieth century came just an image that carried the priest and ran from house to house every household in the township, with the expansion and population growth were to multiply the images and even make out the day Three Kings, "he adds.

Since then, the images have been increasing in number up to meet this year a total of 26 niñicos that from 3 pm and until 5 am visit all homes Abarán.

The Brotherhood of Souls is the Brotherhood who runs this event and the day following the conclusion of it begins to prepare all the details for next year.

Its president for a decade, Bienvenido Molina Vargas said that is one of the most deeply rooted traditions of our people that reflects the feelings abaranero harder.

Abarán City Council has it all planned for this big day, from the pyrotechnics, rockets, firecrackers and fireworks, to the device will have 6 police officers during the Wednesday afternoon and another six for the night, "especially to control traffic and parking of vehicles which sometimes hinder private garages, police said.

"So far no incidents have occurred around the Feast of the Child, except for some minor discomfort caused by bad parking, the high number of cars arriving at the location or the large number of people filled the streets this day ", as reported by local police headquarters.

The Councillor for Fiestas, Isabel Carrasco, has indicated that five extras accompany the image of the child throughout the day to contribute to the fun of abaraneros and visitors.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán