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After five days of religious celebrations in honor of the Patron Saint of Font Obejuna, Our Lady of Grace, during which the Virgin Mary has visited seniors residence, the children have been sheltered under his robe, there have been some donations to her as a beautiful rose in silver gilt and a banner, and altar of the Parish Church Our Lady of the Castle covered with white flowers in the wreath that all mellarienses offer their patron quinary the last day, Friday, porch great day of celebration in honor of Our Lady of Grace.
During the afternoon of Saturday April 30 echoed through the streets and squares Source Obejuna the sound of bugles and drums of military Banda Cerro Muriano, X Brigade "Guzmán el Bueno", with the expertise and solemnity with which they are accustomed. At 19.30 h and began a solemn Eucharist entrance procession headed by D. Juan Correa and concelebrated by priests D. Juan Laguna, D. Matthias Fantini, D. Juan Luis Carnero and D. Jaime Porras attended all fraternities mellarienses passion and some other towns such as Hinojosa del Duque, or Brotherhood of Fatima and Our Lady of Sorrows of Cordoba and as representatives of the City Council mellariense and senior army officers from Cerro Muriano, given the link to the Virgen de Gracia has with the military and a large number of parishioners. The whole ceremony was accompanied musically by the Philharmonic Center "Guadiato and Sierra" Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo, who wanted to make this gift to the Virgin and her sisterhood. At the end of the Eucharistic ceremony, the elder brother of the brotherhood of glory, D. Antonio Luis Marquez Martin, thanked everyone for making it possible for these events in honor of our Patron, and immediately thereafter, the aforementioned X band of the Brigade "Guzmán el Bueno", interpreted a series of processional marches concluding with the national anthem, which replaced the processional route of the Virgin through the streets of people hanging about the possibility of rain. At the end of this small military band concert was an exhibition at some sites and a place Monsignor Miguel Castillejo packed audience at the end of which the brotherhood returned to give an even more lively at night with the traditional fireworks display .
The party moved from the 23.00 has the esplanade of the Grace Chapel which each year organizes the Brotherhood of Mercy of a popular verbena Source Obejuna collaboration with the City Council of the villa entertainment by musical group "Twilight" that lasted until nearly dawn on Sunday.

The time allowed to celebrate the festival of San Marcos in Obejuna Source.
On Sunday May 1, coinciding with the holiday weekend, leaving Our Lady of Grace Parish Our Lady of Grace under a sky threatening rain that forced the guild to shorten his journey, accompanied by mellariense village, who was invited by courtesy of the brotherhood of Mercy perrunillas and anise, also accompanied by a parade chariot and horsemen, decorated for the occasion. The Virgin came to home earlier than usual, then starting a mass in his honor rociera officiated by D. Juan Laguna Navarro and accompanied by the singing of the Choir Our Lady of Hope Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo. Following this, the people of Source Obejuna intense awaited holiday matinee organized by the Brotherhood of Mercy and the City, which offered the people a tasting of Iberian land Alfaro courtesy of Brothers and then hosted a barbecue by the Brotherhood of Mercy as well as the traditional game of the thong, continuing on the day of pilgrimage to Sunday night to the sound of the orchestra Cordoba "Angora." During the afternoon the Illustrious Gloria Brotherhood of Our Lady of Grace, a partner in the events of the day of pilgrimage, coffee and sweets offered to anyone who wanted to approach the gates of the shrine, and everyone who came to give thanks to the Virgin for giving enjoy days like this.

Francisco Javier Cabezas