MEIGAS WITH PARDO BAZAN

In one of the panels of the exhibition in honor of the Emilia Pardo Bazán, who was installed in the Cato Grande these days, the traditional homage that the Meigas de las Hogueras de San Juan They pay annually before the monument to the illustrious writer Corunna and that is integrated within the day of homage to the Coruñesa Woman.

For many years, these "vase women", as they are called by those characters who lack values ​​and the excess of malignity that is best ignored, have been dedicated to know and pay respectful tributes not only to the characters of our history – La Pardo Bazán, Teresa Herrera, María Pita, King Alfonso IX, etc. – but also to the Institutions and Entities that work the most for our beloved city.

Visits to the Residences of the Elderly, to the Economic Kitchen, to the Crib House when it worked as such, to the Nursing Home, etc. Were and are obligatory stops each year of our Meigas, as they come, in June, to remember all the Coruñeses that had left us throughout the year and could no longer accompany them the night of San Juan. Activities and more activities that have served to rooted the figure of the Meigas with the city and a good proof of it is precisely that its image appears in that exhibition since each year the Meigas come to pay a sense homage of affection and admiration to the Unforgettable Countess of Pardo Bazán.

During the past year the Meigas, for reasons unknown to us, have been the object of the hatreds and sectarianism of those who occupy the government of the city; It is true that the Meigas have refused to bow their heads to say "amen, yes sir" as many others have said and thus be gratified with 30 fateful coins, but they have not been made to be a target for insults and offenses.

Never, neither the Meigas nor we, we got into the way of dressing, acting, addressing nobody; We understand that everyone, within his freedom, should act as he deems more appropriate but without it entitled to offend or disturb as does these people who conceal their incompetence and irrelevance behind that hypocritical mask that believes gives moral superiority About the others.

We know that some of these types – female type – continue to insult our Meigas by calling them "women vase". It is already well with so much insult, so much contempt, so much offense; Dedicate to work that is what it does not do although maintaining it costs us a lot of money to the Coruñeses. But in any case, it is always better to be "woman vase" than "sack of potatoes".