Sunday 2 December 2007

SAINT SEBASTIAN FEAST IN BRUNETE.

THE FEAST OF SAN SEBASTIÁN ( FORMER PATRON OF BRUNETE).
This feast is celebrated the 20 of January. Mass is prepared by the brotherhood of San Sebastián and they collect house by house the donations from the villagers and hang them in an olive branch that is auctioned.
In the procession takes slopes from the church to the chapel a statue of San Sebastián where they serve a sanck with lemonade for everybody.
Before that, they celebrate "La vaquilla", a kind of run. Then, during the dance, they do "La subasta del ramo", an auction where the people bid the donations of the villagers and they have a gift of bread of anís.

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