THE Almonte Matrix Brotherhood is a few hours from departure for Rome with departure scheduled for August 29 and stay until September 1, to commemorate the visit of Pope John Paul II31 years ago, at the Sanctuary of the Virgen del Rocío, on June 14, 1993, and the centenary of the pontifical title, which took place in 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19[feminine[feminine.
The communication body of the Vatican also announces this visit for which the headquarters has prepared a complete program of activities, which includes the screening of the film ‘El Rocío. The love of Andalusia for the Mother of God’ – an update of the audiovisual of Carlos Valera— at the San Luis Center, near the famous Piazza Navona, as well as the celebration of a public rosary in the streets of Rome with the simpecado (green) of Almonte, with the point of arrival at the Piazza di Spagna — monument of the Immaculate Conception–.
There will also be a reception at Embassy of Spain to the Holy See and the celebration of the Eucharists in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception St. Peter’s Basilica – chaired by the parish priest of Almonte and rector of the Sanctuary of Rocío, Francisco Miguel Valenciaand concelebrated by Salvador Aguileraofficial of the Holy See and sung by the youth choir of the Hermandad del Rocío of Seville, which coincides these days in Rome and in the Liberian Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major.
It is precisely with the latter that the Rocío Sanctuary has maintained since 2013 “a bond of spiritual affinity”, granted by decree of the SER on Cardinal Santos AprilArchpriest of the Basilica as of April 4, 2012.
Due to this spiritual bond, the Apostolic Penitentiary has granted the Shrine of Rocío, by order of the Supreme Pontiff and by decree of April 3, 2012, Plenary Indulgences. This Eucharist will be presided over by the Spanish canon, Monsignor José Jaime Broselrector of the Spanish National Church of Santiago and Montserrat in Rome, and will be concelebrated by the rector of the Santuario del Rocío.
The Mother Brotherhood reported that, in addition, the Virgin of Rocío has been carrying in her hands since last August 16 a rosary from Pope Francis, a gift brought from Vatican City by the preacher of the first day of the Triduum of Rocio ChicoSalvador Aguilera Lopez, official of the Holy See.
