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It was organized by FRAY MATIAS ABAD, a Franciscan beggar from the
Cartagena convent, on October 4, 1648. Whom would inaugurate the temple
dedicated to Saint Francis of Asis (The Citie's Patron) with a
religious ceremony, and a parade by the Atrato River with 15 canoes
erecting this town to the right shore of the river, he called it
SAINT FRANCISCO, ever since that day of October we have been celebrating
the festivity in honor of Asis. Today's organizational dynamic data to
1926, it was designed by the Father
NICOLAS MEDRANO, on the 100 year death anniversary of St. Francis of
Asis.
The FRANCISCAN SUBURB
From
September 21 until October 2 every year the responsibility for the
Quibdonian
celebration is of the 12 Franciscan Suburbs and their associates.
THE SUBURBS,
are those segments in which the individuals collide in their daily circle
of life, in the suburbs the are born, they grow, they build their first
sentiment of love to the mother land, and all the cumulated tension from
monotony must be erased in the imaginative space created by the
festivities. The suburb is the basic place to organize the celebration and
is the MARK that gives an identity to participating Quibdonians. The
organization has its origins in religious practices.
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