The year was 1980 ... a group of friends who often gathered at the home of "Rompe" (Antonio Serrano) in the neighborhood of the station, "in this town think that there is no specific pilgrimage thereto except holiday village's jackets perennial and sloths.
While at that meeting agree that San Pancrazio (the saint of health and work) has no way to honor him even though there are many neighbors who have devotion to him.
After several months of negotiations, is responsible for an image of the holder to Olot (Girona) and paid for by public subscription. The venerated image is installed and the first year of 1981 at the home of Antonio Serrano, being there the second Saturday evening of May is celebrated as a festival and people coming from all the people to honor the next day Sunday procession moves to the Sierra de los Caballos, having asked the appropriate permissions to celebrate the first country festival.
The starting this party in the field agree that gift to the pilgrims with a soup, a special bread and wine . In this first pilgrimage visited by many neighbors, decking floats to give more brilliance to the parade.
In later years the procession moves to the Sierrecilla Lucas, where there are efforts to build a shrine to many devotees whose efforts are rewarded running out the building in 1987.
Since then the image of San Pancrazio, he settled down there every year to a different neighborhood of La Roda. Residents are responsible for making preparations and decorating the streets that initially fell on the shoulders of many volunteers and lately are the new generations of young Rodens those who take and keep the tradition romera saint accompanying the oxen or mules, to the accompaniment of flamenco dancers, drums and firecrackers. After years in which the party fell a little, since 1999 a large group of youth and fresh blood with the cooperation of the City of La Roda, have boosted the party's traditional May procession in honor of San Pancrazio (12 May) encouraging the participation of all people and reorganizing the former Brotherhood in the Cultural Association "Friends of St. Pancras."
Pilgrimage 1983 in the mountains.
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