{"id":6172,"date":"2017-08-29T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2017-09-04T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T16:53:04","slug":"origen-de-los-armaos-origin-of-the-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/origen-de-los-armaos-origin-of-the-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"ORIGEN DE LOS ARMAOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El origen de este singular y simb\u00f3lico cuerpo de guardia de la Sant\u00edsima y Vera Cruz de Caravaca se remonta, sin lugar a dudas, <strong><em>a la presencia<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>de la Vera Cruz en la fortaleza<\/em><\/strong> de la villa medieval, all\u00e1 por el <strong><em>siglo XIII.<\/em><\/strong> El simple hecho de ubicarse este Lignm Crucis en una tierra fronteriza con los musulmanes de Al-Andalus ya propiciar\u00eda, originalmente, un especial sistema de custodia por los propios soldados de la fortaleza, en principio y, hasta su desaparici\u00f3n, por la Orden del Temple y a <em>partir de <strong>1344<\/strong> por la Orden de Santiago, bajo mandato de su Comendador en Caravaca y, por delegaci\u00f3n de \u00e9ste, <\/em><em>del alcaide de la referida fortaleza.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6174 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/blog29.jpg\" alt=\"blog29\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sin embargo lo que acentu\u00f3 m\u00e1s la presencia de gente armada en torno a la Vera Cruz fue sin duda el establecimiento, en el <strong><em>siglo XIV, del ritual del Ba\u00f1o de la Vera Cruz<\/em><\/strong> en Agua. Este ritual se realizaba, y realiza, en un arroyo que distaba aproximadamente un kil\u00f3metro de la puerta principal de la villa amurallada, lo que implicaba sacar a la Vera Cruz en solemne procesi\u00f3n desde su capilla en la fortaleza hasta el lugar de celebraci\u00f3n del referido ritual del ba\u00f1o, en plena huerta. Este hecho conllevaba ciertos riesgos que el <strong>alcaide <\/strong>no estar\u00eda dispuesto a correr, en su <strong>calidad de depositario y custodio <em>de la Reliquia, por lo que \u00e9sta, transportada en andas y bajo palio, llevaba una fuerte custodia de gente armada. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Previamente un contingente de hombres a pie y a caballo hab\u00eda inspeccionado los alrededores del lugar, con el fin de evitar una posible emboscada musulmana o de otro estilo que pusiera en peligro a la Vera Cruz y a su acompa\u00f1amiento.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Precisamente los siglos XIV y XV fueron pr\u00f3digos en incursiones y correr\u00edas de los musulmanes granadinos sobre Caravaca. En 1391 Yusuf II de Granada llegar\u00eda a las puertas de la villa de Caravaca, y el a\u00f1o siguiente su hijo Muhammad VI incendiar\u00eda la villa, aunque debi\u00f3 retirarse al no poder asaltar la fortaleza siendo derrotado por el Adelantado de Murcia, que hab\u00eda acudido en apoyo de la villa fronteriza, aunque pudo escapar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El mismo monarca granadino <strong>en los a\u00f1os 1404 y 1405<\/strong> volvi\u00f3 a realizar correr\u00edas en la zona, y <strong>en 1406<\/strong> el arraez de Guadix intentar\u00eda, si \u00e9xito, el asalto a la villa de Caravaca. Esta situaci\u00f3n de inseguridad dio pie a que en 1407 el concejo de Murcia enviase 400 ballesteros que habr\u00edan de repartirse entre las villas de Lorca, Mula y Caravaca. <strong>En 1448<\/strong> y <strong>1449 Muhammad X El Cojo<\/strong> hizo una nueva incursi\u00f3n , llegando hasta Orihuela y llev\u00e1ndose buen n\u00famero de cautivos de los distintos lugares, incluyendo Caravaca. <strong>Una de las \u00faltimas incursiones<\/strong> constatadas tendr\u00eda lugar <strong>en 1477 por Muley Hacen<\/strong>, intentando un nuevo asalto a la fortaleza de Caravaca, siendo <strong>la \u00faltima, en 1485<\/strong> y en plena guerra con los Reyes Cat\u00f3licos, la del alcaide de Baza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El <strong>a\u00f1o 1722<\/strong> Cuenca Fern\u00e1ndez-Pi\u00f1ero, al referirse a la Edad Media, public\u00f3 que \u201cen aquel desgraciado tiempo que estaban los moros granadinos tan a la puerta, necesitaban los vecinos de esta villa andar a todas horas con <strong>las armas en las manos<\/strong>, ya para defender de ellos la villa, <strong>ya para seguridad de esta Cruz Sant\u00edsima.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sin embargo el ritual <strong>del Ba\u00f1o de la Vera Cruz<\/strong> en Agua segu\u00eda efectu\u00e1ndose, a\u00f1o tras a\u00f1o, pr\u00e1cticamente sin interrupci\u00f3n. De ello hay <strong>constancia el a\u00f1o 1407<\/strong> y siguientes. <strong>En 1480 la Orden de Santiago<\/strong> se refiere, en presente, al <strong><em>\u201csitio donde va\u00f1an la Vera Cruz a surco de una parte de tierra de Juan de Chinchilla e de la otra parte el camino que va a Huescar\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> Y el mismo autor referido anteriormente estipula que en la Edad Media la procesi\u00f3n del Ba\u00f1o era m\u00e1s militar que eclesi\u00e1stica <strong><em>\u201cporque se compon\u00eda toda ella de una numeros\u00edsima compa\u00f1\u00eda de militares con su Capit\u00e1n, alf\u00e9rez y dem\u00e1s cabos..\u201d<\/em><\/strong> As\u00ed pues, por todo lo expuesto est\u00e1 clara, justificada y demostrada, la necesidad de escoltar con guardia aut\u00e9ntica a la Sagrada Reliquia en aquellos tiempos de la Baja Edad Media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En el siglo <strong>XVI<\/strong>, tras la reconquista de Granada, <strong>la custodia de la Vera Cruz en su salida desde el castillo seguir\u00eda a cargo de soldados a las \u00f3rdenes del alcaide de la fortaleza,<\/strong> nombrado por la Orden de Santiago, \u00a0 acentu\u00e1ndose sin duda en el \u00faltimo tercio del siglo con la sublevaci\u00f3n de los moriscos y guerra de las Alpujarras. Sin embargo<strong>, en el siglo XVII<\/strong>, tras la expulsi\u00f3n de los moriscos de Espa\u00f1a por el rey Felipe III, el peligro interno desaparece pero <strong>la necesidad de custodiar a la Vera Cruz en su salida de la fortaleza permanece y m\u00e1s a\u00fan con su estancia, en la noche del dos al tres de mayo de cada a\u00f1o, en la nueva iglesia parroquial de El Salvador, ya desde el siglo XVI, \u00a0 fuera de las murallas de la villa de Caravaca. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>Esta circunstancia motiv\u00f3 el hecho de que se creara un cuerpo de guardia espec\u00edfico, que \u00fanicamente actuar\u00eda cuando la Vera Cruz saliese del recinto amurallado, cre\u00e1ndose as\u00ed \u00a0 la \u201cCompa\u00f1\u00eda de Guardia de la Santa Cruz\u201d<\/u><\/strong>, comprometi\u00e9ndose en ella los miembros m\u00e1s destacados de la aristocracia caravaque\u00f1a, todos ellos miembros de la Cofrad\u00eda de la Vera Cruz, turn\u00e1ndose en los cargos de Capit\u00e1n y Alf\u00e9rez de la Compa\u00f1\u00eda. <strong><em>As\u00ed lo establec\u00edan el 20 de abril de 1655<\/em><\/strong> al acordar que <strong><em>\u201c\u2026ser\u00e1 uno a el que le tocare la suerte en rueda Capit\u00e1n de la Compa\u00f1\u00eda que sale para la guarda y acompa\u00f1amiento de la Santa Cruz el dicho d\u00eda tres de mayo de cada un a\u00f1o y su v\u00edspera, el qual pueda elegir alf\u00e9rez\u2026.\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6176 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En 1722<\/strong>, el ya referido Cuenca, constatando la \u00e9poca por \u00e9l vivida (segunda mitad del siglo XVII y buena parte de la primera del XVIII) describe a la Compa\u00f1\u00eda como \u201chombres armados con su Capit\u00e1n a trechos en la procesi\u00f3n de guarda de la Sant\u00edsima Cruz, que va en sus andas bajo palio..\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Este cuerpo de guardia, <strong>formado por voluntarios<\/strong>, se mantendr\u00eda por tales <strong>hasta bien entrado el siglo XVIII<\/strong> en que comenz\u00f3 a decaer y hubo de echarse mano a gentes pagadas, cre\u00e1ndose no obstante entre las mismas una especie de \u201cdinast\u00edas\u201d o familias entre las que se daba continuidad a la Compa\u00f1\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A finales de este <strong>siglo y comienzos del XIX<\/strong> era costumbre pagarles un dobl\u00f3n por cabeza, costeado a medias por los Mayordomos de la Cofrad\u00eda de la Vera Cruz y por el Alf\u00e9rez Mayor del Ayuntamiento de \u00a0 Caravaca, cuando \u00e9ste sacaba el Estandarte Real en la Fiestas de la Cruz, dado que a su vez prestaban escolta a dicho estandarte.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En 1803<\/strong> se dec\u00eda que \u201d se acostumbra la ceremonia de los Armados de custodia de vajada estada y subida\u201d y en <strong>1804 queda constancia<\/strong> que tambi\u00e9n acompa\u00f1aban a la Vera Cruz en la solemne <strong><em>Misa de Pontifical que desde el siglo XVII se celebra en la Iglesia de El Salvador<\/em><\/strong>, narr\u00e1ndose de la siguiente forma: \u201c..hay la costumbre de que asistan haciendo la guardia hombres vestidos de cota de malla con sus espadas y alabardas\u201d. <strong>Ser\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n en 1804<\/strong> cuando se utilice la denominaci\u00f3n de \u201cCompa\u00f1\u00eda de Armados\u201d, evolucionando el nombre hasta popularizarse en el dialecto murciano, ya en el siglo XX, como \u201cLos Armaos\u201d o \u201cCompa\u00f1\u00eda de Armaos\u201d, que es como se le conoce y denomina en la actualidad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En 1846<\/strong>, Madoz los <strong>describe <em>\u201d vestidos a la espa\u00f1ola antigua, con peto, espaldar y casco adornado de flores contrahechas, formando un frontis de bastante altura\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> y en <strong>1856 <\/strong>Mar\u00edn de Espinosa, al describir las Fiestas de la Cruz, se <strong>refiere a ellos<\/strong> como <strong><em>\u201cguerreros con sus correspondientes armaduras a la antigua\u201d. En 1888 <\/em><\/strong>Torrecilla de Robles<strong><em> los define como \u201cuna escolta de guerreros a estilo de los de la Reconquista\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En 1898<\/strong> Sala Nougarou, en un manuscrito destinado a convertirse en borrador para el Reglamento de la Comisi\u00f3n de Festejos, <strong>realiza una descripci\u00f3n considerando su origen como<em>\u201cguardia de honor de la Ssma. Cruz\u201d<\/em><\/strong> y calific\u00e1ndolos de <strong><em>\u201cinstituto tan antiguo como la Ssma. Cruz de Caravaca\u201d<\/em><\/strong> y teniendo entre otras como misi\u00f3n fundamental la de <strong><em>ir \u201cjunto al carro [de la Cruz] en las procesiones\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> Tambi\u00e9n este autor estipula que <strong><em>\u201cson los mismos todos los a\u00f1os\u201d y que en su \u00e9poca se les pagaba a cada uno cinco pesetas, cubriendo con ello todas sus actuaciones que eran \u201c..d\u00eda de la bajada de la Cruz, de la Procesi\u00f3n del Ba\u00f1o, y el de la funci\u00f3n solemne con la subida de la Cruz\u201d.<\/em><\/strong> No obstante tambi\u00e9n especifica que de las cinco pesetas que se les daba ten\u00edan que pagar tres a las Religiosas (\u00bfCarmelitas?) que preparaban las flores de la celada, con lo que a ellos \u00fanicamente les quedaba un salario real de dos pesetas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A comienzos del siglo XX, concretamente <strong>el a\u00f1o 1908<\/strong>, se les agreg\u00f3 una funci\u00f3n no propia de su origen, desechada en 1998, que fue la de acompa\u00f1ar en las procesiones de la Vera Cruz a la Presidencia de la Cofrad\u00eda, para lo que se crearon dos nuevas plazas de armados.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tambi\u00e9n en este siglo la Compa\u00f1\u00eda sufrir\u00eda transformaciones, tanto en el n\u00famero de componentes, que tendi\u00f3 en un principio a disminuir, como en el vestuario, si bien en este \u00faltimo aspecto siempre se ha respetado la l\u00ednea esencial del mismo y los principales componentes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6178 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turismocaravaca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>En 1998 se hizo una renovaci\u00f3n o \u201crefundaci\u00f3n\u201d<\/strong> de la Compa\u00f1\u00eda, dot\u00e1ndola de Estatutos y Reglamento, enriqueciendo el vestuario y abriendo el n\u00famero posible de componentes a un total de ochenta y uno, organizados en seis escuadras, cada una de ellas mandada por un Alf\u00e9rez. Con ello se intent\u00f3 volver a dignificar este hist\u00f3rico cuerpo que hab\u00eda ca\u00eddo en una m\u00e1s que palpable decadencia, empezando \u00e9sta en el momento en que\u00a0 se dot\u00f3 de mercenarios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Constituye, sin duda, junto con el Ba\u00f1o de la Vera Cruz en Agua y su procesi\u00f3n, la tradici\u00f3n caravaque\u00f1a vinculada a la Stma. y Vera Cruz con ra\u00edces hist\u00f3ricas m\u00e1s profundas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fuente: http:\/\/armaosveracruz.com\/origen-de-los-armaos<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>IF YOU PREFER THE INFORMATION IN ENGLISH: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ORIGIN OF THE ARMS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The origins of this unique and symbolic body of guard of the Sant\u00edsima and Vera Cruz de Caravaca, can be traced back <strong>t<\/strong>o the presence of the Vera Cruz in the fortress of the medieval village, back in the 13th century. The simple fact of placing this Lignm Crucis in a land bordering the Muslims of Al-Andalus and would originally propitiate a special system of custody by the soldiers themselves of the fort, in principle and, until their disappearance, by the Order of the Temple And from 1344 by the Order of Santiago, under command of his Commander in Caravaca and, by delegation of this, the mayor of the said fortress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, what most accentuated the presence of armed people around Vera Cruz was undoubtedly the establishment<strong>, <\/strong>in the fourteenth century, of the ritual of the Bath of the True Cross in Agua. This ritual was performed, and performed, in a stream that was about a kilometer from the main gate of the walled town, which meant taking the Vera Cruz in solemn procession from its chapel in the fortress to the place of celebration of that ritual Of the bathroom, in the garden. This fact entailed certain risks that the warden would not be willing to run, as custodian and custodian of the Relic, reason why this one, transported in platforms and under pallium, carried a strong custody of armed people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previously a contingent of men on foot and on horseback had inspected the surrounding area, in order to avoid a possible Moslem or other ambush that would endanger the Vera Cruz and its accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Precisely the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were prodigal in incursions and raids of the Muslims of Granada on Caravaca. In 1391 Yusuf II of Granada would arrive at the gates of the town of Caravaca, and the following year his son Muhammad VI would ignite the town, although it had to retire when not being able to assault the strength being defeated by the \u201cAdelantado\u201d of Murcia, that had come in support Of the frontier town, although it was able to escape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The same monarch from Granada in 1404 and 1405 returned to carry out raids in the area, and in 1406 the arraez of Guadix would attempt, if successful, the assault on the town of Caravaca. This situation of insecurity gave way to that in 1407 the council of Murcia sent 400 crossbowmen that were to be divided between the towns of Lorca, Mula and Caravaca. In 1448 and 1449 Muhammad X El Cojo made a new incursion, arriving until Orihuela and taking good number of captives of the different places, including Caravaca. One of the last incursions found would take place in 1477 by Muley Hacen, attempting a new assault on the fortress of Caravaca, the last being in 1485 and in the midst of war with the Catholic Kings, that of the mayor of Baza.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1722 Cuenca Fern\u00e1ndez-Pi\u00f1ero, when referring to the Middle Ages, published that \u00abin that unfortunate time that the Moors of Granada were at the door, the neighbors of this town needed to walk at all hours with the weapons in their hands, and To defend the village from them, and for the safety of this Most Holy Cross\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless the ritual of the Bath of the True Cross in Water continued practicing, year after year, practically without interruption. Of this there is record the year 1407 and following. In 1480 the Order of Santiago refers, in the present, to the \u00abplace where the Vera Cruz crosses a section of land of Juan de Chinchilla and on the other side the road that goes to Huescar\u00bb. And the same author mentioned above stipulates that in the Middle Ages the procession of the Bath was more military than ecclesiastical \u00abbecause it was all composed of a very numerous company of soldiers with their Captain, lieutenant and other corporal.\u00bb Thus, for everything Exposed is clear, justified and demonstrated, the need to escort with authentic guard the Sacred Relic in those times of the Late Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the sixteenth century, after the reconquest of Granada, the custody of the Vera Cruz on its departure from the castle would continue to be carried out by soldiers under the orders of the mayor of the fortress, named by the Order of Santiago, undoubtedly emphasizing in the last Third of the century with the uprising of the Moors and war of the Alpujarras. However, in the seventeenth century, after the expulsion of the Moors from Spain by King Philip III, the internal danger disappears but the need to guard the Vera Cruz on his departure from the fortress remains and still more with his stay, in The night of the two to three of May of each year, in the new parochial church of El Salvador, already from century XVI, outside the walls of the town of Caravaca.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This motivated the creation of a specific body of guard, which would act only when the Vera Cruz left the walled enclosure, creating the \u00abCompany of Guard of the Holy Cross\u00bb, committing itself in it the most prominent members of the aristocracy Caravaque\u00f1a, all members of the Company de la Vera Cruz, taking turns in the positions of Captain and Ensign of the Company. This was established on April 20, 1655, when he agreed that \u00ab&#8230; he will be one to whom he will touch the fate in wheel Captain of the Company that leaves for the guard and accompaniment of the Holy Cross the said day three of May of each one year And his eve, which may choose Ensign &#8230; \u00ab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1722, as we said before Cuenca, stating the time lived by him (second half of the seventeenth century and much of the first of the eighteenth) describes the Company as \u00abmen armed with their captain to parts in the procession of guardian of the Most Holy Cruz, who goes on his strolls under pallium\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This body of guard, made up of volunteers, would remain so until well into the eighteenth century that began to decline and had to be paid to paid people, nevertheless creating among them a kind of \u00abdynasties\u00bb or families among which The Company was given continuity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of this century and beginnings of the XIX it was customary to pay them a doubloon by head, half paid by the \u201cMayordomos\u201d of the company of the True Cross and by the High Lieutenant of the City council of Caravaca, when this one removed the Royal Standard in the Festivities of The Cross, since in turn they lend escort to that standard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1803 it was said that \u00abthe ceremony of the Armed Forces of custody of \u201cvajada\u201d stay and rise is accustomed\u00bb and in 1804 it is recorded that they also accompanied the Vera Cruz in the solemn Mass of Pontifical that from century XVII is celebrated in the Church of El Salvador, narrating as follows: \u00ab&#8230; it is customary for men to wear watch in their midst with their swords and halberds.\u00bb It will also be in 1804 when the name of \u00abCompany of Armed\u00bb is used, evolving the name until popularizing itself in the dialect Murcia, already in century XX, like \u00abArmaos\u00bb or \u00abCompany of Armaos\u00bb, that is as it is known to him And denominates today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1846, Madoz describes them \u00abdressed in the old Spanish, with a breastplate, back and helmet adorned with flowers, forming a frontis of quite height\u00bb, and in 1856 Mar\u00edn de Espinosa, when describing the Fiestas de la Cruz, refers to They as \u00abwarriors with their corresponding old-fashioned armor.\u00bb In 1888 Torrecilla de Robles defines them as \u00aban escort of warriors in the style of the Reconquest\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1898 Sala Nougarou, in a manuscript destined to become draft for the Regulation of the Commission of Celebrations, makes a description considering its origin like \u00abguard of honor of the Stma. Cross \u00aband calling them\u00bb an institute as old as the Stma. Cross of Caravaca \u00aband having among others as fundamental mission the one to go\u00bb next to the car [of the Cross] in the processions \u00ab. This author also stipulates that \u00abthey are the same every year\u00bb and that in their time they were each paid five pesetas, covering with it all their actions that were \u00ab&#8230; of the descent of the Cross, of the Procession of Bath, and that of the solemn function with the ascent of the Cross. \u00bb However, it also specifies that of the five pesetas that were given to them they had to pay three to the Sisters (Carmelites?) Who prepared the flowers of the cloak, so that they only had a real salary of two pesetas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the beginning of century XX, concretely the year 1908, they were added a function not proper to its origin, discarded in 1998, that was to accompany in the processions of the True Cross to the Presidency of the Brotherhood, for which they were created Two new squares of armed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also in this century the Company would undergo transformations, both in the number of components, which initially tended to decrease, as in the wardrobe, although in this last aspect has always been respected the essential line of the same and the Main components.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1998, the Company was renovated, providing it with Statutes and Regulations, enriching the costumes and opening up the possible number of components to a total of eighty-one, organized in six squads, each one sent by a Ensign. This was an attempt to restore dignity to this historic body that had fallen into a palpable decay, starting at the time it was equipped with mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0It undoubtedly constitutes, along with the Bath of the True Cross in Water and its procession, the caravaque\u00f1a tradition linked to the Stma. and Vera Cruz with deeper historical roots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: http:\/\/armaosveracruz.com\/origen-de-los-armaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El origen de este singular y simb\u00f3lico cuerpo de guardia de la Sant\u00edsima y Vera Cruz de Caravaca se remonta, sin lugar a dudas, a la presencia de la Vera Cruz en la fortaleza de la villa medieval, all\u00e1 por el siglo XIII. 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