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La Fiesta del Niño or the Child Night will be held in the municipality of Abarán on 6 January.
After the Mass, officiated in the parish of San Pablo at 11 am and sung by the parish choir, the image of the Child Jesus visit the nursing home, accompanied by the Magi.
Joy, celebration, fun, devotion and tradition come together to celebrate the Baby Jesus bless all the houses in the locality.
Around 15.00h from the Parish of San Juan Bautista, nine images of the baby Jesus will visit different streets of the town carried by the animeros (Nazarenes belonging to the Brotherhood of Souls), plus one tenth image to visit the homes of patients.
From the church of the Barrio Virgen del Oro, two images come out around 3:30 p.m..
About 7:30 p.m., it will officiate the Mass at the Church of San Pablo, once all the images have been assembled there.
At approximately 8:15 p.m., nine other images back out into the streets to cover the remaining routes.
Images of Children or "Niñicos", as they say in Abarán, are collected in the parish of San Pablo between 5 and 6 in the morning.
Joy, music, firecrackers, cheers, applause, chants and a lot of noise, lead this unique collection.
THEORIES ON THE ORIGINS OF THIS PARTY
One of the official chroniclers of the Villa, Jose David Molina Warm, refers to this tradition as a simple act: "The bearer of the image, he notes, comes into the house saying the baby Jesus in this holy house, goes to the head Welcome family answering it and offers to deposit a kiss at his feet.
After doing the same thing goes with all those present, who are often family and friends [...] and after giving the last farewell with a up to next year. "
Temperate Molina explains that the origin of this custom must be sought in the requests for handouts that were animeros to offer masses and light to the souls in purgatory.
The worship of the image of the Child was offered in exchange for alms.
In the early twentieth century there was already a household aware that he hoped the image of the Child.
The writer explains that, to some extent, is controversial and paradoxical duality between the Guild of All Souls and the Feast of the Child, as the souls are directly related to the faithful departed and purgatory-that is, by death, and Children, meanwhile, is the beginning of the life of Jesus.
"It could have some sense," he says, arguing that death is the beginning of eternal life will be like being born again. "
"The whole aim and final," he continues souls of the guilds was to assist the transit of souls through purgatory.
To do this, raise enough money to say masses and burn oil as a symbol of light [...].
The brothers went most Sundays and holidays to beg from house to house by the people.
This continuity should create a certain routine that negatively affected revenues and to avoid it, they turned to find an excuse not to ask for alms directly. "
In this sense we think that the origin of the Feast of the Child is related to the outputs of the animeros to provide funds for worship.
"Offering" he says an image of the Child Jesus from house to house to "exchange" for a kiss, to settle for a handout. "
Hence, the companions of animeros carry bags that may replace the bags for the first time.
The theory of Jose David Molina Temperate speaks the sound of the bell which signals the arrival of the brothers.
"It's another element to consider, he says, perhaps the link between auroros animeros and that most often identified.
The auroros praying the rosary at dawn to the sound of a bell and chants for the dead rose. "
As a counterpoint to this theory, the harbinger of Christmas 2008, José María Gómez Carrillo, notes that the extended version of this tradition is to believe that the people suffering from an epidemic.
"Most of the neighbors were sick," he says oy in bed and could not go to church to worship the image of the Child.
Then the priest continues, "believed that if these people can not come to church to worship the Child Jesus will go to their homes.
And so he concludes, or could be the beginning of this blessed story. "
José María Gómez Carrillo said that the Night of the Child is arguably the quintessential abaranera night.
He said the Brotherhood of Souls contemplated that this event was first practiced on April 20, 1901, being pastor of the town D.
Jose Candel.
Dime Niño
Who you are
All dress in white
I am of the Virgin Mary
And the Holy Spirit (bis)
Resonate with joy
The songs of my country
And living in God's Child
Who was born on Christmas Eve (bis)
Christmas Eve is coming
Christmas Eve will
And we go
And no more will
Resonate with joy
The songs of my country
And live the Christ Child
Who was born on Christmas Eve
The abaraneros are directed to a house to another and the town streets are a party under the Christmas carol music troupes.
Neighbors gather at the Plaza Vieja in the output of Children from the Parish of St. Paul to sing and dance.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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