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For her work in the promotion of culture in the entity and the country

María Cristina García Cepeda is awarded the Clavis Palafoxiana of Puebla

August 18, 2018

Puebla. Puebla.- María Cristina García Cepeda, Secretary of Culture of the Government of the Republic, was awarded the Clavis Palafoxiana on Friday August 17 for her recognized career in the public service as well as her outstanding work in the promotion of culture and arts in this entity and the country.

María Cristina García Cepeda said she was honored: "I do have a deep love for my country, pride in the expressions of Mexican culture and art, the learning and certainties that have always accompanied me. I receive this key which I will keep as the treasure it means, which further compromises my life dedicated to culture”.

Present at the event were the governor of Puebla, Tony Gali; the undersecretary of Cultural Diversity and Promotion of Reading of the federal Secretariat of Culture, Jorge Salvador Gutiérrez; Lidia Camacho, general director of INBA; the secretary of Culture and Tourism, Roberto Trauwitz; and the undersecretary of Culture of the State Secretariat of Culture and Tourism, Moisés Rosas, among other civil servants.

Upon receiving the Clavis Palafoxiana, García Cepeda said: "I learned that public service in culture requires vocation and conviction, which is a privilege, because it’s living in what most affirms us as people. It is to live daily in that inexhaustible and endless treasure that must be shared so that it may be a powerful good of collective wealth”.

The governor of Puebla, Tony Gali, read a sketch about García Cepeda. She highlighted her career as a cultural promoter for four decades. In turn, the Undersecretary of Culture of Puebla, Moisés Rosas, spoke about the participation of the Secretary of Culture in the creation of the National System of Art Creators of Fonca and her close bonds with creators and intellectuals. “I express my deep pride in my family, my dear daughters and granddaughters who are with me today and to whom I owe so much in strength and love”

"I discovered that the history of art is a path of humanism, dream, creation, freedom; the duty of the civil servant dedicated to culture is to make accessible to their community the values and contributions created by the previous generations which today constitute and define us”, she added.

The Secretary of Culture concluded: "I am grateful and moved to receive the Clavis Palafoxiana, the emblem of Puebla and its culture, a symbol that opens the doors of knowledge and freedom of knowledge, which this day also opens my heart and renews my commitment to culture, our origin and destiny”.

Afterwards, María Cristina García and Antonio Gali toured the Cathedral's Treasures Gallery, where they visited the exhibition Celebrare: 475 years since the transfer of the Diocese.

 

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