THE PETTY EVIL OF LA MAREA
Yesterday was Friday of Dolores, a date very rooted in La Coruña since that distant month of October 1854 when the people of Coruña ran to bow before the image of the Virgin of the Dolores, who is venerated in the church of San Nicolás, to impetrate, in a great popular plea, his protection against the cholera epidemic that was decimating the city.
According to sources, almost 6,000 people died during the epidemic, representing 35% of the total population.
The petition for the image of Our Lady of Sorrows was made on the day of October 22, 1854 and, from that moment, the serious epidemic began to subside.
That divine mediation, caused that, since then, the mourned image of the Virgin reached great devotion among the Coruñeses that every Friday of Dolores take to the streets from the dressing room of his Temple of the Pescadería.
This has always been the case and as we remember the people of A Coruña we went, just like yesterday, to see Our Lady walking through the streets of the city.
However, yesterday was different. As they did last October 7, when in a vileness without qualifiers, they removed the floral carpet made in the square of Santo Domingo to honor the Virgen del Rosario, Patroness of the city, yesterday they also had to show their meaner face and sectarian, and this way, applying to the procession parade the Regulation of Public Spectacles, they put all the possible administrative obstacles so that the procession could not go through the streets of La Coruña.
It was necessary that the organizers had to resort to the Sub-delegation of the Government to communicate that they would hold a demonstration, in accordance with the provisions of current legislation, and thus, one more year, the Virgen de los Dolores took to the streets amid the fervor of thousands of people from A Coruña who accompanied her or witnessed her passing.
Once again, these sectarians of the tide, in their last throes, tried to cause as much evil as possible in their petty desire to eliminate all traditions that do not match their ideology malignant and perverse. Once again they exposed this evil and contempt to all those who do not think like them.
Those of us who knew them before appearing hidden behind that lamb skin they showed in the previous days to enter the Town Hall, we knew what was going to happen since the evil, the sectarianism, mockery and contempt for all those who do not think like them and their fascist-Bolshevik ideology, goes in their genes and, that, these evil people can not forget it.
The populists believe that they have a kind of moral superiority, without anyone knowing the reason for such an absurd belief, and thus, they have shown it in all cities that badly govern, trying to eliminate their inveterate traditions, putting all kinds of administrative obstacles, while allowing their followers to campaign for their privileges, offending the beliefs of others without any restriction.
We still remember that Andalusian individual, belonging to one of these populist groups, who expressed, without reservation, that it would already be seen if Holy Week was celebrated in the cities and towns of Andalusia , with total disdain, not only to the popular traditions, but also to one of the economic engines of that Spanish Region.
In Valencia, recently, they have tried to ban a procession; in Madrid, acts that foment religious phobia have been allowed, more specifically against Catholics, and in other cities either they have put as many obstacles as possible or, suspiciously, they have begun works in the streets through which their processional processions pass to make it more difficult your step.
Fortunately, they have little time to be in their armchairs and soon they will be gone forever, leaving a bitter memory of their dark step.
What happened yesterday in La Coruña was one more gesture of its sectarian intransigence. For this reason, we ask Our Lady of Sorrows to protect La Coruña, the people of Coruña and free us from this plague that wants to take our city ahead.
(Photo: La Voz de Galicia)