THE CARNIVAL IN THE HISTORY OF ST BRIDGET
Pedro Santana
Relief Official Chronicler of the Villa de Santa Brigida
Carnival began to be held on the island shortly after the conquest of the Canaries. A late fifteenth century, Gran Canaria was repopulated with people of different nationalities. In August 1521, while in the old Vega was built a chapel that would be placed under the patronage of Saint Brigid, a group of residents in Genoa Real de Las Palmas, modern city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, was instrumental in structuring the "first Carnival" with a clear Italian origin. Appears in those days so you might consider the "commission of festivities, bullfights ordering, placement of lights and the appointment of men to care for the holidays. Among those characters include Cairasco Don Bartolomé de Figueroa, born in a house in the capital's Mall, on October 8, 1538, his parents Don Mateo Cairasco from Nice and her mother Maria de Figueroa, Gran Canaria, Italian rooting also have the father of the Savages, who was Genoese. Both costumes performing dances, and these celebrations are granted patriarchal age and a carnival mask over one hundred.
Nestor Alamo, Chronicler City official and the island, he says, for its part, the August 5, 1574 Brawls at a "soiree or people disguised as farce" by family dispute led to a prologue inquisitorial order, which spoke of "masquerade." And on May 2, 1777 by Proclamation published in the City a Royal Decree of His Majesty and Lords of the Council, representing the Bishop of Placencia, which prohibited all kinds of celebrations of this kind.
The first reference to the celebration of Carnival in St. Bridget is in the old venerable book, leather-wrapped, factory parish dates from 1602. 407 years ago. Fine. In memory of the deeds of the new parish (1583) made by the pastor of the same, Bachiller Mendez Melchor, it records the box he bought his clerk to the image of San Sebastian and asserts that "it was by Carnestolendas of 602." Carnival once
that ruled on the street and then dragged to the home, where the smell of the rich carnival tortillas drizzled with honey permeated the entire house. This custom, like the rice pudding, is a habit still persistent. In the Plaza of the church, vital area and location of all the celebrations of the people, was celebrated as the end of the traditional piñata parties, one of the most famous acts of the old carnival satauteño. There were assembled special audiences and lots of urchins who gathered the gifts scattered on the ground.
A simple spectacle that took place on Sunday morning, following the departure of the mass. The prize fund was exciting and was a great source of joy that no one wanted to miss. In reviewing the records we can see how municipal occasional full Sunday that they had to go the munícipes was suspended for lack of quorum during the piñata. On February 20, 1887, for example, the mayor, Juan Domínguez Pena, was forced to suspend the regular meeting on that Sunday and tried to justify the absence of elected officials "No doubt because of rainy weather that comes to reign, on the one hand, and another Carnival." The following Sunday the munícipes not met, this time because of the "celebration of the historic piñata," insisted the mayor.
Under white sheets and masks, some masks did not act with freedom and spent moderate chestnut to dark. No missing some unscrupulous sometimes a stone-throwing to adjust some scores. For this reason it is not surprising that the Mayor, José González Hernández, published an edict curious newspaper Legality of Las Palmas on 23 January 1876. To this Indeed, the mayor wanted to bring order and avoid "the inconvenience that may be caused among people who dress and neighbors in this town." He also ordered the policeman only the people who carry out night patrols to prevent discomfort. Little attention due to the authority, then days later, he also munícipe, José Antonio Ramírez, the then secretary of the Municipal Court, wrote a letter published in the newspaper La Prensa, on 5 February of that year, reporting a new prank.
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