this Friday October 4 are filled exactly 50 years of the first entry into the Virgen Macarena University Hospital. THE Brotherhood of the Rocío de la Macarena will discover and bless at 8:00 p.m. a ceramic altarpiece more than two meters high with the reproduction of his simpecado, coinciding with his annual outing through the streets of his parish in his traditional evening rosary preparatory to his extraordinary pilgrimage to Rocío Sanctuarywhich will take place on the 6th, like every first Sunday in October.
The Virgin wanted the day that the corporation of San Gil fixed by regulation for its annual evening rosary to coincide with the exact day of the first admission to the hospital. A coincidence that motivated us to ask the archdiocese extend your usual routestarting a few meters from the parish and extending it to the doors of the hospital center for the blessing of the ceramic altarpiece which reproduces almost life-size the simpecado of the Macarenos, made in the workshop of the neighborhood ceramist Isabelle Parente.
Both the Management of the Macarena Hospital and the Presidency of the Parliament of Andalusia declared by letter to the older brother, Mario Niebla del Torotheir desire to receive the Macarena simpecado for this exceptional anniversary and to celebrate said anniversary, which coincides with the desire of the Almonte branch to bring the figure of the Virgin of Rocío closer to hospitalized patients and health personnel.
The altarpiece, which will be located within the chapel, will be blessed by the bishop of the diocese of Colón-Kuna Yala, in the Republic of Panama, Manuel Ochogavia Barahonavisiting Seville these days and clearly devoted to the Virgen del Rocío. The event will be chaired by the mayor of Seville, Jose Luis Sanz. In addition, it will benefit from the assistance of a vice-presidency of the Parliament – since the president is outside Andalusia – to receive the brothers and devotees of Rocío de la Macarena at the door of this, where takes place one of the mysteries of the Evening Rosary. will be prayed, which will be dedicated to the recently deceased parliamentarian María Díaz Cañete.
In both public institutions, the delivery by the Brotherhood of Rocío de la Macarena of some memorial gifts in memory of the exceptional passage of the Macarena simpecado for the golden anniversary of the hospital in the Macarena district.
He ceramic altarpiece had a cost of 6,000 euros and was entirely financed by donations from the faithful and brothers of the Virgen del Rocío of the Macarena neighborhood.
This Wednesday marks a week of death of the maid of the Virgen del Rocío, Ana Morales Gonzalezat the Virgen Macarena Hospital, so during the ceremony there will be a souvenir in memory of this woman from Almont, who had the honor of caring for the Queen of the Marshes and for whom the community of Rocío mourns .
