In
1724 Cardinal Belluga, then still Bishop, approved the erection of the
Brotherhood of San Pedro in the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción at the
request of the parish priest of the same D. José Roldán. Focused on the worship
and celebration of the feast of the Saint, the Brotherhood, which benefited
from several inheritances, had a restricted affiliation in its first period,
since its membership was only allowed to the clergy of the town.
The
Brotherhood had an Image, whose author and characteristics are unknown, made in
1754, as can be seen from a note in its Account Book dated the first day of
July of that year: "From the drawer to bring Mr. San Pedro, 30 reais; for
conducting said image, 8 reales; of the embrilla and screw for said image, 4
reales”. The Image was carried in procession on its name day, as confirmed by
another note from 1784: “for the gilding of the litter of San Pedro, 240
reales”.
At
the end of the 18th century, perhaps coinciding with the Decree of the Count of
Aranda, in whose list it no longer appears, the Brotherhood went into decline,
to be reconstituted, apparently around 1830, but now without the exclusively
clerical character. that had previously characterized it.
It
will be in 1890 when, thanks to the work in favor of Holy Week in Ciez of the
Presbyter D. Pedro Marín Martínez, Confessor of Queen María Cristina and
Chaplain of the Claras nuns, a new Image of the holder appears in our
Processions that the D. Pedro Marín himself, D. Pedro "Macharro" as
he was popularly known, commissioned the sculptor Joaquín Eusebio Baglietto, as
it appears in the sculptor's order book: "For the construction of a
high-altitude San Pedro Apostol de la Negacion half-kneeling from natural, his
smooth painted canvas clothes and gold-trimmed edges, red cape and
biolet-colored tunic, said work being placed for the town of Cieza said image
in the Hermitage of the Holy Christ within the walls of the town in front of
the Station ordered by D. Pedro Marín Martínez chaplain of the Claras Nuns of
said Town and native of the same town. Delivered on October 10, 1880 and
brought by said yimage 2,900 reales.”; This was a very fine carving, smaller in
size than it is today, but beautiful in its folds and shapes. D. Pedro also
ordered the tunics, made of red calico with a white cord at the waist, and the
traditional “muco” caps crowned with a white tassel at the tip.
Since
then, the Image has been kept in the Hermitage of the Santísimo Cristo del
Consuelo, from where it was transported in the popular "Traída de los
Santos" always accompanied by its famous Band of trumpets and drums. The
throne on which it paraded, of small proportions, It was the work of Maestro
Cañamón and was gilded by Ignacio Amoraga Latorre, it was adorned with arms
detached downwards topped at their tips by transparent glass "bombs"
that his first waitress, Ms. Pilar Gómez Marín, cleaned with a ballarde, and
inside from which the candles that would illuminate the Paso were introduced. A
chronicle from later years reminded us: "it was a nice Paso -like its
owner- modest and orderly; his tunics were red and he was placed in the
Procession behind the Oración del Huerto...", and continues: "the
rooster of San Pedro, on its perch, was a beautiful stuffed specimen, covered
with golden feathers and crowned with an upright crest red, in a challenging
attitude to sing".
D.
Pedro died in 1910, his nephew D. Pascual Gómez Pérez took over; Likewise, Mrs.
Josefa Gómez Pérez is in charge of the Camarería. In the following decade, due
to the tightening of the ties that linked the Pasos that did not have their own
Brotherhood with certain trades, possibly to ensure their departure in
procession, the Paso de San Pedro was assigned to the farmers, due to the
relationship of the holder with beneficial rains for crops.
After
the Civil War, in which El Paso was burned, the family of D. Pedro tried to
recover the spirit of the Brotherhood, which would resurface again in 1948 with
an Image by the sculptor Francisco Palma Burgos, which differed notably from
the previous one, on a throne of great proportions acquired in Cartagena, which
had been made in 1898 by Juan M. Cervantes and which was renovated in 1954 by
the sculptor from Malaga based in Cieza Juan Solano, then naming D. Pedro Pérez
Gómez Honorary President and being its effective President D. Pedro Susarte
García, who reorganized the Brotherhood in the following three years and
replaced the old red tunics with others of maroon color for the anderos, and
pink and gold satin for the Nazarenes.
In
1952 the Brotherhood tried to approach the realization of a new Step, The
Descent of Christ, thus agreeing to the Board of Passion Brotherhoods on the
condition that: "it is made by a sculptor of merit and above all the
central figure of Jesus must be of an artist of all prestige", and that
same year he was authorized to exceptionally procession on Good Friday night in
the Procession of the Holy Burial with the titular Image. But the conditions of
the time and the loss of enthusiasm of its components, as well as the economic
problems that the Brotherhood must face, due to the abandonment of the members
and the claims of the anderos, who intend to charge twice the stipulated
amount, 10 pesetas , they put an end to the project of the new Paso, although
the Brotherhood manages to establish itself.
After
the resignation of Mr. Pedro Susarte in 1959, Mr. Bartolomé Herrera Martínez
took charge of the Brotherhood. At the same time, the Honorary President
presents to the Board of Passionate Brotherhoods the project for a new Pass, La
Lanzada, which was not completed either, among other reasons because the
Brotherhood itself had no news of it and was not in a position to face such a
thing. spent.
Mr.
Bartolomé Herrera was succeeded in 1964 by Mr. Juan Piñera Caballero, a man who
was especially enthusiastic about the bugle and drum bands, to the point of
taking charge of the children's bands of the Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of
Consuelo and his own Brotherhood. , which end up mixing to lose the typicality
that had always confronted them in a healthy way, disappearing forever the
distinction between the trumpets of San Pedro and the Cornets of Santo Cristo.
D.
Juan will try to settle the Brotherhood definitively by all means, but three
years later he resigns giving way to D. Juan Martínez Hortelano who would give
him a strong boost, as well as his successor D. Francisco Barceló Peñalver.
In
these years the Band reaches certain fame and renown. However, and at a time of
true boom for these Bands, it did not take long for problems to arise,
essentially posed by the escapes of those who made them up from one another,
which caused the protest of the Brotherhood that raised an appeal to the Board
of Pasionarias Brotherhood, so that it agreed in 1968 "that no bugler or
drummer can go to a band if it already corresponds to another", requesting
a list of their members before January 15 of each year and imposing fines of
five thousand pesetas to those who do not present them.
In
1972 he took possession of the presidency of the Brotherhood D. Pedro Gómez
Villa, who tried, like his predecessor, to stabilize it, being forced to resign
without success in 1977, after having stopped processioning the previous year
due to finding himself without Brotherhood and with a Brotherhood with many
debts behind it.
After
the brief mandate of D. Manuel E. Semitiel López during the year of 1978, in
1979 he put himself in charge of the Brotherhood D. Pedro Moreno that will
govern their destinies until 1987, restoring at that time the Image of the
holder, recovering the Band of bugles and drums, and also renewing all the
costumes that change their already traditional colors for the gold of the
tunics and the blue satin of the capes. And in one more attempt to consolidate,
during the first years of the eighties, they procession with an old Image of
the Samaritan woman by the local sculptor Manuel Juan Carrillo Marco, whom they
call María de Cleofás.
In
the 1990s, under the presidency of D. José Martínez Caballero, the Brotherhood
once again revamps the throne of its owner, which it will complete in the year
2000 with a new set of finery embroidered in gold, silk and precious stones on
velvet by A. Morote. Lucas, and acquires his second Paso, Santa María de
Cleofás, a dress image by the Jumillano image maker Mariano Spiteri, who
processions for the first time in the Holy Burial Procession on Good Friday
night in 1991, also joining the Procession since 1997 of the Risen One, and
whose trousseau will be expanded with the making of a suit embroidered with
precious stones by Ms. Mariana Lucas Santos in 1995 and by another silk
embroidery that same year of 1997. In the same way, the traditional staffs of
his Tercio de Nazarenes, made in the workshop of the Ciezano goldsmith Diego
Penalva, in front of whom have paraded since 1995 two Tercio lanterns, the work
of Manuel Caballero from Ciezano, who also made a new gold border that same year
embossed for the title Image. In 1995 a new Banner was also released (which
replaced the previous one made after the civil war) embroidered in Villena
(Alicante) in gold and silk on blue velvet by Nati Vidal Vidal and a year later
the restorer from Ciez Antonio García Egea restored the Image of San Peter.
Under
the presidency of its current one, Dª Amparo García Marín, the andero's
wardrobe, which had already undergone changes in 1992, was modified, now
inverting the main colors of the Brotherhood, blue and gold, and recovering the
traditional “muco” cap. Likewise, the Brotherhood restored its script in 2003
and acquired two new Tercio lanterns made of silver, and in 2004 began the
process of making a suit and a cloak, both embroidered in silver, for the Image
of Santa María. de Cleofás and made another dress for the same image in 2010.
In
the years that follow, the Brotherhood undertakes the largest projects,
perhaps, in its entire history.
In
2006, its Owner inaugurated a new throne carved in wood with ornaments in fine
gold and polychrome, rod tips and bell holder in a set due to the Cordovan
artist José Carlos Rubio Valverde. Coinciding with the Blessing of the new
throne, the Brotherhood establishes the processional Transfer of its Holder
from the Church of San Juan Bosco to the House of Saints on the Friday before
Passion Sunday.
In
2010, Rubio Valverde himself made for the Brotherhood, also in wood and with
silver decorations, a new throne, with its corresponding rod tips and bell
holder, destined for the new sculptural group of the Holy Women on the way to
Calvary, a group made up of three Images of dress (Ntra. Sra. de la Caridad,
Santa María de Cleofás and Santa María Magdalena) work of the Cordovan sculptor
Antonio Bernal Redondo, who is also the author of the silver halo of the Image
of the Virgin, and with which the Brotherhood From that year on, it will parade
in the Procession of the Holy Burial, and since then it will also process the
Paso Santa María de Cleofás only in the Procession of the Risen Jesus. For this
purpose, and after two failed restoration attempts carried out by the
Brotherhood years ago, José Carlos Rubio Valverde restores and gilds in fine
gold the throne that until 2006 had been shared by San Pedro and Santa María de
Cleofás, and on which since then only the second paraded.
In
2011, the Children's Third of the Brotherhood participated for the first time
in the Children's Procession on Holy Saturday with an image by the young
sculptor Pedro Sánchez Morcillo from Ciez and, finally, after Holy Week, the
Brotherhood received from the Board of Brotherhoods Pasionarias the approval of
his request for the award of the Paso Santísimo Cristo de la Expiración, with
which he will parade in the Procession of the Penitent in substitution of its
Holder, who will only do so from that moment on in the General Procession.