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Francisco Bernabé has reminded that "this tribute has the unanimous support of the Organizing Committee," while they welcomed "as anyone to represent the essence of our people, our roots," "reason to be proud" , said Barnabas.
The act of homage to Widow of Mining and Mining will take place on Wednesday, June 5, the day of the event unionense prologue, beginning at 22.45 h.
at the Cathedral of Cante.
Tonight, it is called "Union Day" also will feature the musical group "Union City" and "Coral Argentum", playing the anthem of the Union, the Rondalla and Chorus Home Elder of The Union, which will sing the anthem of the Festival, and the association "Art Dance."
Close this first day of the traditional festival evening Trovera by the Association Trovera José María Marín.
TRIBUTE TO THE WIDOW OF MINING
FRANCISCA MARTINEZ VALERO
This edition of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas honors Francisca Martinez Valero, 78 years unionense miner's widow Alfonso Tomás Sánchez Carreño.
Francisca's face is the face of an era.
The image of the suffering of the devoted wife and resigned to a chronic though, internalized assumed.
Daily anguish for a known destination.
The fate of her husband, Alfonso Thomas, who was fourteen years old and carrying baskets of tin mines "Santa Teresa" and "Numancia." After these, come "Cantera Emilia", "The Tram" or "Laundry El Roble" its ultimate destination, and sick of silicosis, before his retirement at age 30.
Francisca and Alfonso Thomas formed a marriage full of love, the fruit of which were born John, Thomas, Mary and Joseph.
Francisca remembers her husband, who died in 1991, with a heartfelt mixture of admiration and sorrow, "was very good and hardworking," "there are so many memories ...."
Francisca revived, in an act of inevitable suffering, "his death, suffocated the poor," he says between sobs.
After his loss, Francisca demonstrates the courage of the miners own and goes to work outside the home, since the withdrawal that is left is negligible.
Today, Frances is a woman devoted to her 4 children, 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren, his true devotion and what takes up all your time.
Francisca Martinez Valero represents the courage and greatness of a race of women worthy of public recognition in this year's Festival received from the Union.
TRIBUTE TO MINING
JOSE MORALES PEÑALVER
The International Festival of Cante de las Minas in XLIX edition pays tribute to Jose Morales Peñalver, unionense 67.
José Morales began working in the mine at 17, and there continued until 38.
His baptism mining was in "Streetcar."
In that first job, being a minor, had to sign a release his brother.
After "Streetcar" arrived "San Lorenzo", "TA" or "Brunito. Joseph, whose father and son died from the evil of mining: the silicosis, down into the bowels of the earth because of hunger," in those years was another possibility, "we walked at 6 am and saw no light until 5 pm," he recalls.
After his retirement, Joseph, ill first-degree silicosis, chronic bronchitis, 19,600 pesetas their meager benefit, continued working.
He did as pitchman in a churros or selling popcorn in front of the cemetery, what it took to raise her five children, with his inseparable companion, Ana Maria Carrion, with whom he married, and mine, when she I was fifteen.
Of the countless memories of those years, Jose Morales recalls excited, "the death of a partner in the Brunito" or "inevitable deterioration of any man to come down to the mine, its extreme thinness, all eaten by the lead ...."
"Rare was the day he died not a partner in any of the mines in the area."
Joseph, who feared for his life "many times", says that regularly comes to the hospital for oxygen is missing.
And it does with the naturalness of that, despite everything, he feels privileged because "many could not tell."
Today, José runs in the rented sports kiosk in the neighborhood of Santa Barbara, decorated with carbides and photos, a true sanctuary mining, which adds to its unique museum, where they found more than 3,000 photographs mining area, as well as many useful multiple miners.
Morales José Peñalver, mining and unionense receives from the Festival and the Union fitting tribute for a life dedicated to its mines.
Source: Festival del Cante de las Minas
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