Malaga has an outstanding ambassador. Wherever it will lead to their city flag. It is the best host when it comes to show the most deeply rooted traditions , such as Easter. Antonio Banderas is more than a malagueño illustrious, has become a stellar host for all those who approach the city. close ties greets, she is grateful and welcomes anyone who wants to know his land . Easter is, for years, the best framework for the actor sold the city where he was born.
Since the Good Friday, when the Tears and Favors Foundation presiding, held its gala dinner, he began his brother and ambassador activity. A foundation that distributes an average of 200,000 euros per year in the city to fight cancer, to help disadvantaged families and to provide scholarships for students. Banderas has become its own right, an ambassador for the city and its cofrade tradition. The last episodes of Banderas host lived during the transfer of Christ of the Good Death Brotherhood of Mena . The actor is Legionnaire of Honor for some years, an appointment that is evident to sing "The boyfriend of death" or recite "The Legionary creed".
On the morning of Holy Thursday, as expected in the Plaza de Santo Domingo arrival of the Legion could see an effusive greeting Flags Dona Pilar de Borbon , aunt of Felipe VI and sister of King Juan Carlos. The Infanta, with the insignia of the Royal House in the flap and in a wheelchair , was greeting the legionnaires and participated in the transfer of the Sacred Body Protector before the eyes of the military and civilian authorities. The Duchess of Badajoz rose as a sign of respect for the National Anthem when Christ passed before her and sang along with the ceutí squad present at the event, singing and salves Tertius.
A delegation, that as happened in the release of the prisoner in the Brotherhood of "El Rico" on Holy Wednesday , was attended by the Minister of Justice acting, Rafael Catala , leading a large group of local politicians, provincial and regional who shared location for two days with the Bishop of Malaga, Rafael Catala, and the other great malagueño host, Francisco de la Torre, mayor of the city, who gave the first hints of bell last Easter Monday Cayetano Rivera in the The output Cautivo .
But not only official events left images to remember. Lilian Tintori, wife of dissident Venezuelan Leopoldo Lopez, was present in Malaga on Wednesday and Holy Thursday. Tintori took the opportunity to enlist the support of Antonio Banderas in one of the balconies of the Hotel Larios , where the actor sees processions. The interpreter used the occasion to demand the release of Leopoldo Lopez, who has spent more than two years in prison for opposing the regime of Nicolas Maduro.
Although it is no longer throne man, it maintains the tradition of being steward of the Virgin of Tears and Favors . Each comes with Palm Sunday his "virgin" of San Juan. A devotion shared with another illustrious Malaga Easter, the Baroness Thyssen . Carmen Cervera is linked to this brotherhood for years and his son Borja Thyssen l bequeathed to go under the poles of the Christ of the Exaltation , first throne that was linked in Malaga Antonio Banderas. It was an organized gathering in large part by actor allowed to buy the two executioners that forms the sculpture of the throne.
Banderas was passed under her window, and rosemary filling the streets malagueñas, to Mary of Hope . There were many years, under the mantle of the "Queen" of Malaga, shared efforts in the poles with his brother Javier. "Has already been withdrawn. He has said it will come, but if it comes is at home " , Carlos Lopez Navy, elder brother of Hope, who recalled that the voice said Carlos Herrera will be the declaim the previous sonnet to the blessing the Nazarene step gives the Malaga people. "It can not be. Only his voice is, "remarked Lopez Navy.