The Legend of Tomasín and his Brotherhood of Gypsies

As they told me I tell you ....

many years in Barrio de San Marcos in Seville He lived a boy who everyone knew as Tomasín. With only eight years old, She was orphaned when their mother died. His father, who worked in the neighborhood of San Jerónimo, specifically in a factory railways he encountered a problem, since their working hours (practically from sunrise to sunset) It made it impossible to take care of small. For this reason, he asked his neighbors (his house was a few meters) the nuns of the Convent of Santa Isabel who will look Tomasín, something they did with great joy, since the child was loved for his great nobility and kindness.

Tomasín, as happens with so many children in our Sevilla, I had a dream, an illusion that every day he sighed and it was none other than leaving Nazareth with the Brotherhood he loved, the Gypsies.

The nuns made him a robe your child, so that in the morning of Good Friday and when Christ returned to his temple, his father got into the Nazarenes row in the same way that today make so many parents with their children. Our traditions to never miss Sevilla.

And you can imagine the illusion that Tomasín lived the days before what would be his first Easter. But the boy became seriously ill shortly before these days and unfortunately yesterday medicine is not like today. Tomasín died a few days before Good Friday and could not fulfill his dream.

Sevilla have ensured that half the child and impressed him with the robe of Nazareth who had made her sisters. That robe Gypsies who both flattered. That blessed tunic that never came to enjoy life.

They say that the other half Sevilla took to the streets to accompany Tomasín the cemetery and say goodbye to him.

Then came the awaited day, but this first night of Holy Thursday without Tomasín It might not be the same, and it never would be ...

At about two in the morning, four brothers of the Brotherhood of Gypsies passed in front of the Convent of Santa Isabel and something incredible happened, a sound of doors opening and drew his attention to them, a little boy came with his robe and mask of Gypsies and a wand in her small hands. It was no doubt Tomasín, but they were speechless, They could not move print. When they went after the child reacted, but it was gone, only found on the floor a wand, Wand Tomasín. The next morning they took her to the convent to give to the nuns. Sister Superior seeing the wand immediately recognized, but he was surprised, and he told them it was impossible to leave the convent because she had very well guarded in his chambers.

It has been many years, Much has happened since that day, but they say it's true and safe, what every morning of Good Friday a small child holds his dream and leaves the Convent of Santa Isabel, stop for a moment those nuns blessed with his robe, his mask and his wand, treads the streets of Seville and accompanies your Jesus of Health Brotherhood of Gypsies ...

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