Day of "La Santa Cruz"

       

In Mexico it is the traditional feast day of construction workers. The masons usually placed at the top of the facade of the building site, a wooden cross decorated with flowers and tissue paper, previously blessed by a priest.
This tradition dates back to the colonial period from the formation of guilds and as old chronicles was driven by Fray Pedro de Ghent.

This celebration was removed from the liturgical calendar by Pope John XXIII, however the construction workers of Mexico, continued to maintain that tradition alive.

The May 3 is the feast of the Holy Cross; ancient celebration that has its roots in the discovery of the tree upon which Christ died and that according to the story occurred in the fourth century of our era.


Given the religious fervor of the builders, the Mexican bishops made the necessary arrangements to continue existing in Mexico the celebration of the Holy Cross.

The Feast of the Holy Cross is deeply rooted in Mexico. In high buildings or in more modest buildings, provided that day you can see all those preparations culminating in the great feast of construction.

Engineers, architects, master builders, laborers "barges" and all those involved in these works no party. Apparently, the celebration of the spoon and the mixture starts from the beginning of the colony, in times of Fray Pedro de Ghent. It was in New Spain and what is the Historic center of Mexico City, a number of churches and chapels dedicated to the Holy Cross, in the context of what were very popular Barrios.