Tarragona expects more than 20,000 attendees to the act of proclamation of 522 newly beatified

Costa Dorada. 09 October 2013. The Tarragona Educational Complex will host this Sunday October 13 at 12 noon, the Beatification of the Year of Faith The ceremony is organized by the Secretariat General of the Spanish Episcopal Conference by the Office for the Causes of Saints , in coordination with the diocese of Tarragona city hosting the event. 147 of the new blessed are of Tarragona , including who was auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese , Manuel Borrás , and 66 diocesan priests .

The act provides seat 20,000 people, who are concentrated in the city of Tarragona , especially over the weekend . Around the Beatification of the Year of Faith has launched a whole program of events that began on September 12 and will end on Saturday, October 26 . On the one hand , the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences San Fructuoso organizes two lectures by Encarnación González (Director of the Office for the Causes of Saints of the Spanish Episcopal Conference ) : The martyrs , witnesses to the faith , which is celebrated on Tuesday, 8 October and the 522 martyrs beatified Year of Faith , which will take place the following day, Wednesday, November 9. Both conferences will begin at 19 am in the auditorium Tarraconense The Seminar Center .

Similarly, the Palacio de Congresos de Tarragona will host on Friday 11th , also at 19 h , the conference Twentieth Century , Century martyrs , who will deliver the Professor Andrea Riccardi ( former Minister for Integration and International Cooperation Italy and founder of the Community San Egidio ) .

Among the events planned is also the theatrical representation of the Passion of San Fructuoso , with two functions that will take place on Saturday October 12 at the Arena Plaza Tarraco (TAP ) , 18.30 and 22 h . We can say that the performance will be in Castilian and original musical version .

Moreover have launched various exhibitions to be visited in different spaces. The living space Tarraconense Faculty Seminar Center hosts the exhibition The Church of Tarragona (1936-1939) , witnesses of the faith , organized by the Archdiocesan Historical Archive . In the exhibition hall of the Hermitage of Sant Magi Shopping Portal ( Portal del Carro s / n - Tarragona ) you can visit the exhibition Witness faith today. Fe + charity = mission , organized by the Department of Missions of the Archbishopric of Tarragona. In addition , under the title Witness faith today. Christians persecuted martyrs of the century, can be seen in the lobby of the Center Tarraconense The Seminar , until October 14 , the exhibition organized by Aid to the Church in Need .

Meanwhile , Manos Unidas Witnesses organizes shows faith today. The female world , located in the temporary exhibition hall Tarraconense Biblical Museum , until 13 October. Compostela is the title of the exhibition which runs until December 8 Tarraconense Center Seminar organized by Anton Llamazares . Finally , the Refuge n . Pier 1 Tarragona Coast hosts the exhibition A look at the Easter of Tarragona , on 11, 12 and 13 October , under the organization of the Association of Associations Easter Tarragona .

The film also has a place within the events surrounding the beatification of the Year of Faith : 11 and October 12 , the film One God prohibited the auditorium of the old Court of Tarragona. Directed by Paul Moreno , filming chronicles the last weeks of the life of 51 members of the Claretian Community Barbastro ( Huesca ) who were retained and finally shot in August 1936 at the start of the Spanish Civil War .

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