The city of Totana delivers the title Adopted Son to D.
José Giner Crespo better known as "Father Lucas" in an emotional ceremony at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of the Paretón-Cantareros that was held to coincide with the celebrations of this hamlet totanera.
The Municipal Corporation of the City of Totana approved in June 2010, unanimously a motion of Mayor through which the file was passed granting start Title of Honorary Citizen of the City.
During the ceremony, which was led by the Councillor for Citizen Participation, Josefa Maria Sanchez, the mayor presented the nominative parchment, made by students Occupational Center "José Moya Trilla" by this title to Franciscan who has settled in Totana more thirty years.
In addition, the president of the neighborhood and the village headman also took delivery of a plate in gratitude for the thirty years that the priest holds the church of El Paretón.
This initiative, as explained by the Councillor for Citizen Participation came from the Neighborhood in the hamlet of El Paretón totanera-Cantareros in gratitude for 30 years of dedication and religious in this county, and sought to grant this award to Father Lucas, and concur that in him all the qualities and merits that make it worthy of this honor and distinction, precisely coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Franciscan priest.
The Mayor of Totana emphasized, above all, the values ​​of Father Lucas, making it the "extraordinary person who is" showing that working "with the heart and not wanting anything in return" saw the hamlet totanera is today what is.
Biography
Father Lucas was born in the Valencian town of L'Ollería and, at present, is pastor titular church of "Our Lady of the Rosary" in the Paretón-Cantareros and "San Juan Evangelista" in Mazarron council Canadas Romero.
He came to the town of Totana in 1984 after ordered and sing Mass in his hometown and teach in different religious schools.
He studied at the Seminary of Orihuela (Alicante) and graduated in Theology from the University of Granada, before teaching in the schools of San Lorenzo in Masamagrell (Valencia) and San Buenaventura de Murcia.
He then began his pastoral career in the Three Hail Marys Convent and San Buenaventura de Totana.
The large size human and pastoral work that the priest has promoted over the years in the two temples which brings the parish "Our Lady of the Rosary", both in the villages of the Paretón and Cantareros, respectively, have provided him with great affection and affection from the community of devotees in this area of ​​the municipality.
As a pastor and as a religious, tireless work has been done for the benefit of this rural and totanera society, and has always sought to promote the participation of the faithful in parish affairs in the district.
In recent years, it has also driven institutional collaboration with the city of Totana under collaborative agreements for the maintenance of existing infrastructure in the parish-Cantareros Paretón.
At this time, we have undertaken major projects in the district as the rehabilitation of the shrine of "Our Lady of the Rosary" of Cantareros and new parish hall built in the adjacent areas, which was inaugurated on August 1, 2008 and which consisted mainly in original rehabilitation hermitage in three different phases, whose ancient temple dates back to 1728.
Since then they have improved religious stays in the village with new halls of worship, stays of Thrones, parish halls with spaces communicated to the temple, among others, and has developed a copious parish activity.
Furthermore, it underlines the thrust given by Father Lucas in order to recover the cultural heritage and historical documentary of the parish, as well as valuable historical research with its publication "first centenary parish of Our Lady of the Rosary Provincial Rural Cantareros Totana Paretón and 1909-2009 ".
Similarly, there are many achievements and work of Father Lucas Totana from the parish of Our Lady of the Three Hail Marys and St. Bonaventure of Totana, in a life dedicated to the Church, His Order and largely, like many religious, the town of Totana and its people.
