The herdsmen of San Francisco de Paula have been this morning at the Javea Town Hall to invite the mayor, José Chulvi, And the entire population in general to the special festive program prepared for this year. An exercise in which the 400 anniversary of the founding of the Convent is commemorated in the order Xàbia Minima.
The events this weekend, April 9 10 and concentrate on the small square of the Convent. Saturday at 19 hours will be held the last day of novena 20 hours and there will be a parade through the historic center and the "raval"Convent with a stop in the chapel of San Francisco de Paula, where a dawn will sing. In addition, a wreath will be made. The evening will continue with a fellowship dinner in the small square of the Convent and a performance of the Tuna of Jávea.
Sunday at 10 hours a parade will be held by the ROMANTIC Saladar. At 11 hours there will be a solemn mass followed by the procession of San Francisco de Paula along the usual itinerary.
The principals of this year are Mercedes Martínez Font, Pepa Buigues Catalá, Francico Pérez Rico, María Rosa Cruañes Bolufer, María J. Guardiola Salines, Alexandra Sapena Kukhareva, Álvaro Ayala Sapena, Isabel Pedrós Navajas, Sergio Romera Carrió, Rosario Bolufer Buigues, Santiago Ayala Sapena, Pedro Bolufer Cardona, Rosa María Soriano Cholbi and Loli Gómez González.
Commemoration
It was in 1616 when they reached the Minimum friars to Xàbia still sheltered between the walls and began to raise their convent dedicated to Our Lady of Victory on a given site by a neighbor, Lucas Spanish, and thanks to the license granted by the Duke of Lerma. The order him held until the Confiscation of Mendizabal left the building in the hands of City Hall. In the following years, the offices of the friars were school, prison, granary and chair of latinidad, home of the Jesuits until wartime was demolished.
El Convento comes to life in 1943 hand of the Order of Augustinian nuns until 2003 finished become a day center run by the congregation of Martha and Mary. During all this time and despite changing orders to his office, he has survived the festival of San Francisco de Paula, one of the oldest in the town, a procession dating back to the years of presence of the Minimum friars who they had as a standard.
All these detailed historical data as well as old photographs of the festival and the convent can be found in the book published this year by the organizing association.
