ROMERIA REGIONAL DE SAN BENITO ABAD

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From the Question of the Feasts of San Benito Abad 1996 (Mr. Manuel Hern ndez Gonz lez)

The peasants in the past constituted the largest nucleus in the population, although they were never organized as unions. However, they had holy specific protective patterns since the conquest. From the same 16th century, San Benito is considered the protector of farmers. Hermitages under that advocacy and for that purpose were erected in La Laguna and La Orotava from that same century. The holy abbot was paid three annual festivities according to the ordinances of the Lagunero Council. The feast of St. Benedict constitutes a festive event in which the saint was thanked for his benevolent action on the fields. It is no accident, therefore, that his main holiday was at the Easter of Pentecost, coinciding with the collection, where the fruits of the earth were offered to the saint.

The devotion to the saint cannot be marginalized in an agrarian society of these intercessory rituals. Rogative, processions and spells were the means that the peasants used to prevent the spread of the plagues, the continuation of the drought or the force of the storms. From that perspective, Saint Benedict becomes the effective protector, the constant summoner in the face of misfortunes, as a watchman of the community. Thus, in the mid-eighteenth century, before a cicada plague that destroys crops, a spell was made in La Laguna. He left his procession with the clergy and many peasants and went to Lomo de Arriba with the Saint carried on his throne by ...

CAT LOGO OF THE FESTIVALS OF SAN BENITO ABAD 1996. Question from Mr. Manuel Hern ndez Gonz lez. Professor of American History of the University of La Laguna. Party Delegation of the City Hall of San Crist Bal de La Laguna.

From the Question of the Feasts of San Benito Abad 1996 (Mr. Manuel Hern ndez Gonz lez)

The current party is the daughter of her time and her transformations and ups and downs demonstrate the changes in the social fabric. La Romer de de San Benito, as we know it, is logically a recent modern event. It is inspired by the scenic model of the Orotavense of San Isidro, erected in 1935, but with the peculiarities of the festivities of the northwest region. Born in a society that has ceased to be agrarian, in which peasant rituals decline, to the same extent that the anguish for cat strofes is not as great as those of yesteryear. The party in the Canarian countryside was nocturnal and masked, with ships, liveries and fires, the romes and processions were events in the dark or in the dim light of a small lamp or tea. It was not to dress in the face of winning, or to ritualize about a nonexistent reality. La romer a actual is a daytime event that ritualizes about a rural life that has ceased to be. Their typical suits, which are nothing more than refined stereotypes of those of yesteryear, which fell before the inevitable and ruthless rhythm imposed by the manufactures of the British Industrial Revolution, which made them succumb in the 19th century. Party in which people expose themselves to the spectators, dressed as peasants in their carts and oxen, with their songs and dances, with their traditional meals, trying to relive with joy to something that has ceased to be, but that is remembered to preserve the collective subconscious that we call identity, but that changes and ...

From the Question of the Feasts of San Benito Abad 1996 (Mr. Manuel Hern ndez Gonz lez)

The festival of San Benito in the Modern Age presented the characteristic features of the whole of the agrarian festivities of the northwest of the Island, which had as essential numbers the ships, the song of wolves or loas, the theatrical hors d'oeuvres, the parade of militias with their liveries and face concealment. We must bear in mind that in this area of the Island, although it has been lost in many locations due to its replacement by floral elements, such as in Tejina, towns such as Valle de Guerra, Taganana, La Laguna, Tejina or Tegueste used in their parties summer these elements, constant and redemptive invocations to the scourges and calamities that anguish a society that fears invasions from abroad, which are not only fire attacks, but also plagues and epidemics, and that battle against it with ships and the liveries that redeem man in the battle for life, with the redeeming fire that thunders with his flying and fires. A feature of the peasant festival that betrays the character of the islan peasant or that hides and masks, not only in the winter carnivals, but in the summer holidays. In his party that took place on the Tuesday of Pentecost, which usually fell between the end of May and the beginning of June, the ships left and theatrical performances were held. The peasants were hidden with their blankets, unable to be seen, loaded with their clubs. Hence the author ...