The sad winter of 1914-15.

  • But the works were finished and the crisis worsens by the day. There was no job and no hope to sell the crop of must… ".
  • The crisis affection to all the population, as much to workers as to small and great owners, and the confusion and disorder made lose all hope to obtain “resources from the national budget with the urgency that the case required”.
  • The situation became distressing "to the point of being forced men and women, old and young,to leave with the sun in big groups, to seek bread for his debilitated stomachs”.
  • Before such circumstance “with out solution, nor anyone else started…” the Father Francisco Lara, decided "For 12 days I was going to run into the streets and provide bread for the needy. For about 28 days, until the spring started, there was demand for workers in the countryside of Jerez and Sanlúcar fields. Like the miracle of the slopes of Tiberias overran bread in abundance."