A photograph of the Lady of Cordoba, in the hands of the Pope Francis. The moment happened this Wednesday during the public audience held that day and took place in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
The Holy Father received a gift of a framed image of Our Lady of Sorrows, which was given to him by a member of the board of directors of the Brotherhood of Sorrows present there, as the brotherhood itself announced.
Ramon Luque Madueñowho is Dolores’ vice-butler, is on a private trip to Rome with his wife, Magdalena, and they thought they had the photo ready in case the opportunity arose to give it to her. And “they had this chance”, it was like this, to the joy and satisfaction of the brotherhood, as detailed by the older brother of the Dolores, Jose Maria Herrerorequested by ABC.
The Pope stopped with them for a few seconds to admire it, and it was they who explained to him that they were from the Brotherhood of Sorrows. Ramón Luque Madueño is a person closely linked to the brotherhood, “it was a very nice detail”, emphasizes Herrero.
It is common for the Brothers of Sorrows to carry images of the Virgin of Sorrows to places of worship. world who visit and immortalize this moment, and in this case this photograph will always remain in this important place of Christianity.
Because of this gift from Cordoba, from the hand of one of the most deeply rooted devotions in the capital, and because of another that the Pope had with the Virgin of the Abandoned of Valencia, because of the catastrophe of DANA, it was a day in which Spain was very present.
“Let’s not forget Valencewho suffers a lot. Today I wanted to bring an image of the Virgin of the Abandoned to San Pedro Square. We ask him to intercede for Valencia and for all the regions of Spain that are suffering because of DANA,” he said.
This type of gestures of the brotherhoods of Cordoba with the Popes is ancient. The penultimate, on May 22, during a representation of the Brotherhood of Love to Pope Francis.
Love’s older sister greets the Pope last May
The councilor, Antonio Murillo; older sister, Rocío Arranz; the lieutenant’s older sister, Inmaculada Aranda; and the secretary, Inmaculada Jiménez, occupied the place reserved for the authorities while the rest of the pilgrims attended from seats very close to the papal seat.
After the audience, the Holy Father greeted them and it was the first time in the history of the brotherhood that a representation of brothers had the opportunity to meet His Holiness.
The brotherhood of Love gave him gifts a box of handkerchiefs embroidered with the name of its sacred holders and the book with the history of the brotherhood, written by Juan Carlos Jiménez.
Furthermore, the fraternity of Christ of Grace He presented a relic from his crucifixion in 2018 to Pope Francis during an audience, marking the 400th anniversary of the image’s arrival in Cordoba.
The Brotherhood of Mercy presented its medal to Benedict XVI after the granting of minor basilica status to the Church of San Pedro in 2006.
