It
was the year 1962 when a group of friends who used to meet in the workshop of
the local sculptor Manuel Juan Carrillo Marco and among whom were D. Manuel
Montoya Nieto, D. Francisco Moreno Piñera and D. David Vidal Cutanda, in
addition to the sculptor himself , they promoted the creation of a new
Brotherhood for the processions of Cieza; Thus, the Brotherhood of the Descent
of Christ arose, whose Board of Directors, once the entry of the Brotherhood in
the Board of Passionate Brotherhoods has been accepted, meets for the first
time, under the Presidency of D. José Piñera Moreno, on May 24 of 1963 and
writes the Statutes that are approved that same year; One year later, the
Brotherhood will appoint Mr. Pedro González Díaz-Llanos as President of Honor
and Mrs. Amparo Ros Díez as Waitress.
With
the intention of carrying out a procession during Holy Week in 1964, that same
year of 1963 Manuel Juan Carrillo Marco was entrusted with a sculptural group
of six Images: The Descent of Christ, but the group was not carried out due to
differences in the project and due to material lack of time for its execution.
It is then agreed to carry out a Step of no more than three Images, all
agreeing that this was The Kiss of Judas, a Step that Carrillo himself
contracted.
El
Paso, made up of three figures carved in wood, debuted in Holy Week 1965
parading in the Arrest Procession together with Jesús Nazareno, which entailed
some inconveniences and the protest of the Brotherhood of Jesús Nazareno due to
the difficulty faced by the anderos of the Kiss of Judas to parade ordinary
with such a heavy Step and through narrow streets. In the two following years,
1966 and 1967, and in order to enhance Carrillo's work even more, the Image of
the Lord parades in a gold-embroidered purple velvet tunic made in Madrid; However,
the Paso fails to penetrate the spirit of the members of the Brotherhood, and
so in 1968 a new one was released, inspired by El Prendimiento de Salzillo,
carved by the Murcian image maker José Lozano Roca, on a throne made of wood
and gilded by Manuel Jaén from Ciez.
That
same year, 1968, the peculiar staffs formed by the cross and the ladder were
also acquired, which replaced the primitive blue lampshades, and which were
made in the Maestro Penalva Workshops, from which the lanterns would also come
out in 1970. of the Tercio de Nazarenes, doing it in 1990 from the workshop of
his son Diego the insignia holder that accompanies those and in 2004 the staffs
of the Infant Tercio, a replica of those of the Tercio de Nazarenes.
The
good progress of the Brotherhood motivated that a few years later it
commissioned a new Step destined to parade in the Procession of the Risen One:
The Appearance of Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene, which is made by the Murcian
sculptor Juan González Moreno and which parades for the first time in 1972,
under the presidency of D. Francisco Caballero Morote, who had taken charge of
the Brotherhood a year earlier. The Step of "The Apparition", as it
is popularly known, was mounted on a wooden throne made by the master carpenter
from Ciezano Francisco Dato Moreno, with carvings by the artist from Málaga
José Blaya, and painted and gilded in gold leaf, a throne that By Easter 2011,
he finished modifying and restoring the tronista from Ciez, Bonifacio Pérez
Ballesteros, under the mandate of its current President, Mr. José Antonio Díaz
Ruiz.
However,
this rate of growth was cut short in the early years of the eighties, to the
point of fearing the participation of the Brotherhood in Holy Week in 1983. In
1984 the Brotherhood took a new course. with the recently elected president D.
José Antonio López Ramos, under whose mandate the tunics of the Andero
Brotherhood are completely renewed and capes are added to the luxury ones,
restoring in 1989 the throne of the Arrest at the hands of Antonio Gómez Gómez,
master carpenter of Abaran.
In
1993 the Brotherhood will see its old dream come true of acquiring its main
Paso, The Descent of Christ, a group of seven Images sculpted by the Murcian
image maker García Mengual that will parade that year on the same throne of the
Arrest, doing so a year later on a throne metal made by Manuel Caballero,
Brother of the Brotherhood.
In
1999, to the script of the Brotherhood made in 1972, and which will be replaced
by a new one made by the Sisters of the Brotherhood in 2010, a banner
embroidered in gold thread on green velvet by Lorca embroiderer María Miñarro
is added. And the following year, restored by Carmen Carrillo, daughter of the
sculptor Carrillo, the primitive sculptural group of El Beso de Judas made by
him, was recovered, parading in the Procession of the Penitent on Good Friday
morning, replacing the Paso de El Prendimiento that He had already been doing
it in addition to the Processions of the Arrest and General, Tuesday and Holy
Wednesday respectively.
Under
the mandate of Mr. Francisco Zamorano Lucas, who replaced Mr. José Antonio
López Ramos, who had presided over the Brotherhood for the previous two
decades, he changed his characteristic cap for the traditional Ciezano
executioner for use by all Thirds in the Holy Burial Procession, in 2010 the
Sisters of the Brotherhood made the finery for the throne of Paso The
Appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene and the Murcian artist living in Madrid
Antonio Soriano Talavera carved that same year a set of rod tips in wood for
the thrones of the Brotherhood.
Since
2005, the Children's Third of the Brotherhood has its own Paso, La traición de
Judas, made up of three images carved by the young sculptor José Antonio Molina
from Blanca and which parades on a golden wooden throne, the work of the
Alicante artist Domingo García Chauán.