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This morning the Cross and Icon of Mary of the World Youth Days have visited Torre-Pacheco.
After being received at Cartagena, the cross split the night from Monday 21 to Santiago de la Ribera, where they held a prayer concert at the edge of the beach, organized by the Coordinator of Youth Ministry in our Vicariate of Campo de Cartagena - Mar Minor.
Cross arrived at 08:30 am at the Civic Center Torre-Pacheco and was carried in procession to the parish church where they prayed Lauds.
Then the cross and icon were brought to the Day Care Center where he prayed with the elders
It is a moment of grace.
A historic moment for Torre-Pacheco: for youth, for children, adults ...
It is a moment that will not happen again.
Known as the "Holy Year Cross", the "Jubilee Cross", the "World Youth Day Cross, the" Cross pilgrim "Many call it the" Youth Cross "because he has been given to young people to take her all over the world, to all places and at all times.
This is his story:
It was in 1984 when Pope John Paul II decided that there should be a cross - a symbol of faith - near the high altar of the Basilica of San Pedro, where everyone could see it.
This was installed a large wooden cross, with a height of 3.8 m, as he desired.
At the end of that year, the Pope gave the same cross to the youth of the world, represented by the youth of San Lorenzo International Youth Centre in Rome to take her around the world.
Young people took the cross at the Centro San Lorenzo, which became its home during the periods when it was not on pilgrimage around the world.
In 2003 at the end of the Palm Sunday Mass, John Paul II wanted to give young people a copy of the icon of Mary, Salus Populi Romani, "A delegation from the German Today I also entrust the icon of Mary. From now on , together with the Cross, this will accompany the World Youth Days. will be a sign of Mary's motherly presence close to young people, known as the Apostle John, to welcome in your life. "
(Angelus, XVIII World Youth Day, April 13, 2003).
The original version of the icon is kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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