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The pilgrims had to pick up the camp, at four-thirty in the morning, aided by members of Civil Protection and local police escorted them on their return to the city.
Although the weather forecast announced bad weather for the weekend, looked radiant sun during the morning of Saturday, at the start of the Pilgrimage Rociera XXV, presaged not hours later what would happen.
Many local authorities, led by the mayor of Eagle, Bartolome Hernandez, accompanied the hundreds of pilgrims who gathered at the gates of the parish of St. Joseph, after the Solemn Mass and blessing of pilgrims, by the chaplain of the Brotherhood, Manuel Amatriaín, to undertake the first part of a tour that took them to the Plaza Virgen del Rocío, where riders and strollers joined.
The mayor, accompanied by the elder brother of the Brotherhood, Ginés Robles, authorized officer out there way and subsequently to the traditional stop at the Civil Guard barracks to conduct the wreath to Our Lady Virgen del Pilar.
The joy experienced during the day on Saturday, he was disturbed about half past four in the morning, when the heavy rain that fell at that time about the camp, installed in the mill Saltaor, forced her to prevent greater evils pilgrimage , since this place is close to ramblas area.
Aided by members of Civil Protection and local police, and coordinated by the Security council, Francisco Clemente, around seven o'clock again started returning to the city, escorted by security forces in a convoy that ran through the highway to avoid ramblizos area.
The Pilgrimage XXV Rociera closed at 20:00 pm on Sunday, with the entry of simpecado to the parish of San Jose and a Mass dedicated to the pilgrims.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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