Dénia honors Sister Pilar Adell, the woman "who gave life to the years"

Promoter of the Santa Lucia Nursing Home, a pioneer in the defense of personal, labor and social rights of people and "an example of humanity and heart." For all this, the Carmelite sister Pilar Adell has been recognized by the City Council of Dénia in the Institutional Act of the International Day of Working Women.

Sister Pilar, born in Zaragoza but Dianense of adoption, came to Dénia for the first time in 1976 to take over, temporarily, the Hospital de la Caridad, next to the City of Dénia. For a year she combined her work in the hospital with her work in Alcoy as a promoter of the first day care centers until, in 1977, she was definitively transferred to Dénia to take charge of a center in very precarious conditions. But his work and that of other sisters carmelitas They managed to open the Santa Lucia Nursing Home in the 1979 year, which they ran until the 2000 year.

The work of Sister Pilar in front of the residence, being directly involved in the work of social services and support to battered women, marginalized people, people with mental illness and disabilities and drug addicts, stressed greatly during your stay in Denia.

The Councilor for Equality, Elisabet Cardona, reviewed the intense life of Sister Pilar in favor of the most needy people in the city, while the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, remembered anecdotes of the times in which the Sister Pilar personally went down to the pharmacy to pick up the medicines of the majors of the Residence.

During the ceremony spoke a working center, which highlighted "his bravery, his courage and the dedication he has always had towards others" while old photographs of the protagonist of the act were projected.

After receiving from the mayor's commemorative painting of his appointment, Pilar Adell wanted to especially emphasize two women who have marked his life: his mother, who took care of a large family, and sister Joaquina de Vedruna, founder of the Congregation Carmelite also brought forward a large family.

Pilar recalled that the achievements during their stay in Dénia were due to other Carmelite sisters and several dianenses who supported the project as Jaime Bertomeu, Father Antonio Sánchez and Pepe Catala out the Catala, who was present in the room. He was also the protagonist of one of the stories of the act, since after the words of the honoree seized the microphone to tell some anecdotes with Sister Pilar.

Pilar Adell received the affection of the dozens of people who filled the hall of the City of Dénia chock, including workers in the home, family, Carmelite sisters and dianenses for those who, at one time or another were, sister Pilar was part of their lives.

Manifesto for the International Day of Working Women

Before the tribute to Sister Pilar, several representatives of the associations that make up the Council – Housewives, CCOO, Centro Mujer, UNED, Xarxa de Dones de la Marina Alta, Matria, Infodona, DIYAFA- and the Councilor for Equality, Elisabet Cardona, read the manifesto prepared by the Consell.

This time, required reading "the end of patriarchy, to achieve the autonomy and freedom of women, to achieve a citizenship that has nothing to do with normative impositions or with the stereotypes that curl us".