The Cathedral of Toledo will host this Tuesday, November 10, at 7:00 p.m., the funeral mass in memory of the 69 victims of the train accident that occurred on October 28 in the Toledo town of Urda, a ceremony that will be attended by Kings Felipe VI and Letizia.
The celebration will be presided over by the Archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Cerro Chaves, together with the auxiliary bishop, Francisco César García Magán, and will bring together institutional, political, and religious representatives in the Primate Temple, in an act of remembrance and mourning for those who died in the accident.
The Christ of Urda will leave the town for the first time in more than 400 years
The ceremony will also feature an exceptional presence, the image of the Most Holy Christ of Vera-Cruz of Urda, which will leave the town for the first time in its more than 400 years of history. The carving, created in 1596, only temporarily left Urda when it remained in the city of Valencia, after the Civil War, for its restoration.
The image will arrive on the night of this Monday, November 9, and the next day, when the doors of the Cathedral open, it will be accessible for public veneration, in a place close to the celebration. During the mass, it will accompany attendees in prayer for the victims, who will be represented by 69 candles placed next to the altar.
Broad institutional and religious representation at the event
From the central Government, the first vice president and Minister of Economy, Trade and Business, Carlos Cuerpo, who has also taken over the Transport portfolio after the resignation of Óscar Puente, precisely because of this accident, as well as the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Milagros Tolón, and the Government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, José Pablo Sabrido.
Also attending will be the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, the national president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Juanfran Pérez Llorca, the president of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno, the president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, the president of the Government of Aragon, Jorge Azcón, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras.
Likewise, the attendance of the mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velázquez, the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the president of the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha, Pablo Bellido, is expected. From Vox, as confirmed to Europa Press by party sources, the president of the Parliamentary Group, David Moreno, will attend in a personal capacity, along with the candidates for the province of Toledo to Congress, Manuel Mariscal and Atilana Guerrero.
In the ecclesiastical sphere, the bishops of Cuenca, Guadalajara, Ciudad Real and Albacete will attend the funeral, in addition to numerous bishops from Spain and the president of the Episcopal Conference, Luis Javier Argüello.
Second funeral in Castilla-La Mancha after the one held in Urda
This will be the second funeral held in Castilla-La Mancha in memory of the victims of the Urda accident, after the one officiated on October 31 in a crowded parish church in the town, also presided over by Francisco Cerro Chaves and Francisco César García Magán. On that occasion, the mass was accompanied by the image of the Most Holy Christ of Vera-Cruz of Urda, expressly transferred from its basilica and adorned with 69 roses in memory of the deceased.
The Kings will visit Toledo for the second time to show their support for the victims, after visiting the University Hospital of Toledo the day after the accident, where they spoke with several of the injured admitted and with the heads of the medical teams who attended them. They also visited the Diocesan House of Exercises El Buen Pastor, where they listened to the explanations of the psychologists and support teams for the families of the missing and deceased, in addition to talking with some of them.
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