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Leonor opened the eyes when water of the river Jordan received on her head
Madrid, 14 ene (EFE) .-Without crying and with the opened eyes. This way the Infanta Leonor received on her fair head the water of the river Jordan with the one that was baptized today in the Palace of The Operetta, in a familiar ceremony in which her paternal grandparents, the Kings, were the godfathers.
The small Leonor remained slept practically the whole ceremony and only she left the placidness of the dream in the arms of her mother - and she gave a small wince - when the cardinal archbishop of Madrid, Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, spilt the water on her head. It was 13:10.
Leonor of All the Saints, first-born of the Princes of Asturias and second in the line of succession to the Throne, received the sacrament of the baptism two months and a half after her birth in the Clinical Ruber Internacional of Madrid of Madrid, last October 31 of dawn.
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12:45 hours, with fifteen minutes of delay on the hour foreseen initially, it began the religious ceremony preceded by a photographic familiar session, celebrated in the lounge of hearings of The Zarzuela.
It was there where the grandmother and godmother of the small one, dona Sofía, was confessing the journalists that her granddaughter, beside being the most prettiest, behaves herself very well, she does not weep for anything. " My words remain repealed ", said the Queen, who the first day that saw her granddaughter commented that she was crying very much.
Whereas the King was already a godfather ofFelipe Juan Froilán, major son of the Infanta Elena, for the Queen it is the first time that couples one of her grandsons.
Moments before the photographic session, the minister of Justice, Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar, in his condition of Major Notary of the Kingdom, had proceeded to the inscription of the birth of the Infanta in the Special Record of the Royal Family.
On having begun the religious ceremony presided by Christ Crucificado's image and other one of the Virgin, in whom Rouco Varela was represented by the military archbishop of Spain, Francisco Perez Gonzalez, and other five concelebrantes, the Prince of Asturias read a sacred text of the Prophet Ezequiel who speaks about " pure water ", of purification.
In the side of the Gospel, there placed, in the first row, the Kings and godfathers, the Princes of Asturias with the Infanta Leonor in arms of her mother, who in some moments fanned the small one and in many others she caressed her cheek, and the Dukes of Lugo and Palm.
Dona Cristina sat in her knees her small daughter, Irene, the first one after three males and "benjamina" of the Royal Family up to Leonor's birth.
Behind other relatives of the Kings were, as the sisters of don Juan Carlos, the Infantas Pilar and Margarita, with their respective families, or both brothers of dona Sofía, Irene and Constantino of Greece, who has travelled to Madrid in company of his wife, Ana Maria, and of several of his children.
Face, in the side of the Epistle, dona Letizia's family placed. Her parents, Jesus and Paloma; her grandparents, Menchu, Enriqueta and Francisco, great-grandfathers of the small Leonor; and both sisters of the Princess, Telma and Erika, between other relatives.
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