Marine performs traditional procession with his protector

A history which dates from 1942, when Vice Admiral Windt Lavandier Caesar nearly lost his life after being sunk the merchant ship "San Rafael" and is addressed to the parish Santa Barbara of the Colonial zone to give thanks, is one of the reasons that inspired the body of the Navy to a procession every year in the name of the Virgin of Amparo.

The tour started yesterday at 9: 00 in the morning after the celebration of Eucharist in the Church Santa Barbara of the Zona Colonial, from where it proceeded to his transfer to the pier tourist Don Diego.

There left the image of the Saint by the Ozama River until the apostadero naval Sans Soucí on Board of ship Insignia Patrullero de Altura "Almirante Didiez Burgos" PA-301 escorted by Patrullero medium "capotillo" PM-204 and the coast guard "orión" GC-109

Officers, senior, junior, active and retired, admirals enlisted and special guests u000amarched to the beat of the music band of the institution concurrently with the color white for their patron to the parish of the Naval Base "27 February".

The Chief of staff, Vice Admiral Nicolas Cabrera Arias, emphasized that to ponder the faith of the traditional devotion of the members of the institution by the Immaculate under Virgin, protector of the Navy, "we must go back from the time of their respective Catholic origins, during the conquest and evangelization of the new world, in which sailors him begging with prayers of protection for the salvation of their lives to the risks that were constantly threatened". In that historical context, the head of the institution noted the event in which the Dominican Merchant "San Rafael" commanded by Captain Juan Beotegui, was sunk on 3 May 1942 near the coast of Jamaica by the German submarine "U-J25", while sailing the route u000aTampa-Kingston, where saved miraculously life already deceased Vice Admiral Cesar Windt Lavandier, who arrived at the port of Santo Domingo, addressed the parish Santa Barbara on December 18 of that same year to venerate her.

Also noted that the image of the Virgin has had countless devotees, mainly sea men, those who remain attached to naval traditions and his devotion by the Saint.

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