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Moors and Christians of Abengibre

Abengibre, La Manchuela, Albacete

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Moors and Christians of Abengibre

Activity · Abengibre, La Manchuela, Albacete

Image of Abengibre, not of the place itself.

A popular re-enactment in honour of Saint Michael the Archangel, patron saint of Abengibre, celebrated on 29 September. Its text, the Alardes, was written by Bernardino Pérez Iniesta, who signed the Relación en verso de Alardes para Moros y Cristianos dedicated to the saint on 18 September 1879. The re-enactment is structured in four parts: the plea, in which the Christian general and ambassador ask Saint Michael for help against the Moors; a first clash in which the Moors triumph and carry off the saint's image to burn it; a second in which the Christians triumph, recover the image and carry it in procession amid the pealing of bells; and the farewell, with the final conversion of the Moors to Christianity.

29 de septiembre

Photo: DiazArocas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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