On Friday August 12 was held at the headquarters of the Illustrious Cabildo Processions of Totana Superior, receiving the group of young people from the city of Cuenca in Ecuador, spending a few days in town before continuing our journey to Madrid proceed to meet with Pope Benedict XVI on World Youth Days held in the capital of Spain from 16 to 21 August.
The President of the Illustrious Cabildo Processions Superior de Totana, Juan Maria Zamarreņo, accompanied by members of its Board of Directors, welcomed the group of 33 young people who know first hand the peculiarities of our Easter.
During his visit could see the facilities of the house of the council, and also were shown a video to convey how people live and manifest the Holy Week in our municipality, showing the richness of our images and thrones our processions, our unique horn, the black robe ... which certainly caught the attention of the Christian youth group, which also served to give way to questions and concerns that arose after viewing the video.
This group of young people is happening in Totana what is known as the Days in the Diocese, which is an event prior to World Youth Day, where thousands of young people around the world spend four days from 11 to August 15 in our diocese, before going to meet the Pope in Madrid.
During these days in Totana, which are hosted by families and the College totanera "La Milagrosa" know our town and different parts of our region, through various recreational and spiritual activities and cultural group of volunteers Pastoral Youth have organized for the occasion, enter them, organized visit to the headquarters of the Cabildo totanero.
After the visit were presented with a gift as a souvenir of their passage through the illustrious house of the Brotherhoods of Totana, as well as various materials was required documentary by several of these pilgrims to witness our Holy Week in their places of origin.
From the council wants to take this opportunity to wish this group of young people a happy stay in our country and, above all, his visit becomes an unforgettable experience of this great international gathering of young people around the world to be held in the next few days in Madrid, led by Benedict XVI.
