01337nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002500043700002600068245007200094856006200166300001200228520093700240022001401177                                       d1 aJosé Ruiz Martínez1 aSantos Campoy García00aRitos y costumbres tradicionales en las Pascuas de Navidad de Lorca  uhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/extart?codigo=7010235  a215-2423 aThe documentation of the different wintry festive and religious manifestations, focusing on Christmas, also known as “Pascuas” in Lorca, from the beginning of the 19th century, according to the printed informative sources mainly describing all the traditional festivities during these years: “gozo” mass, pilgrimages, Christmas tips, dances, Three Wise Men representations or Epiphany play, “escarnio” theater, etc. We have also described the festive groups that cheered up them, mainly bands and brotherhoods, as well as the most outstanding personalities who supported them: thanks to their duty they made possible all the festivities and gave sense to most of these rituals that have contributed, during the last two centuries, to the conservation of the immaterial heritage of many of these Christmas customs, nowadays unfortunately dissappeared from the popular culture, not always considered correct or understood.  a1697-2708