The Capucins district wakes up today in its most beautiful finery. Balconies decorated with hangings and banners, streets decorated with chains and banners with litanies to the Virgin. The Divine Pastor of Malaga leaves today for the Cathedralwhere next Saturday she will be crowned by the bishop of the diocese, Jesús Catalá, and leaves her neighborhood for a few days. The neighbors will hardly feel her absence, since they will live alongside the Virgin Shepherdess during these extraordinary and historic days for the Capuchin Congregation.
Pastoreña Youth decorates the streets of Malaga
Everything is ready for the priest of Malaga to be transferred today to the Cathedral, where she will await her coronation next Saturday October 5. Meanwhile, the streets of the capital of the Costa del Sol eagerly await the arrival of the Virgin. To do this, the Pastoreña Youth took charge of decorating many corners of Malaga, both in Capuchinos and in the city center.
The white chains stretch along several streets in length and width. There were also several banners with the flags of Malaga, Andalusia and Spain which contain various litanies to the Virgin. On them, we can read “Patroness of Sports”, “The Virgin of the Capuchins” or even “Shepherd of the Crowned Capuchins”.
There are also balconies, duly decorated by the neighbors and which they have prepared with all their love and dedication to the priest of Malaga. Hangings in red damask fabrics and banners in Conceptionist, Franciscan and Vatican colors accompany the reddish ones. Everything for and for the dedication of a neighborhood whose fervor will bring to the temples of the Virgin Shepherdess a crown sculpted in gold graciously offered by her flock.
The transfer of the priest from Malaga to the cathedral
The entourage of the Pastor of Malaga will depart from Capuchinos at 6:00 p.m. and will arrive at Malaga Cathedral around 9:15 p.m.
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Departure from the parish of Divina Pastoraat 6:00 p.m.
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Itinerary: Gardens of Plaza de Capuchinos, Capuchinos, Cruz del Molinillo, Ollerías, Carretería, Nosquera, Comedias, Santa Lucía (7:55 p.m.), Granada, Sánchez Pastor, Santa María and Patio de los Naranjos.
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Entrance to Malaga Cathedralat 9:15 p.m.
The musical accompaniment of the Pastora de Málaga
THE Music group Maestro Eloy Garcíaof the Brotherhood of the Expiration, will be responsible for musically accompanying the Pastor of Malaga in these moving days for the Pastoral Congregation. For the occasion, the composer Francisco Javier Moreno composed the march “Coronation of the Divina Pastora”, a piece that follows the most classic canons of processional music and which immerses us in the pastoral dedication itself.
The image of the priest of Malaga will be exhibited tomorrow, Friday October 4, for the veneration of all the faithful in the Cathedral of Malaga. The city will burst into joy the next day, Saturday October 5, when the priest of Malaga will be crowned by the bishop of Catalá. In the afternoon, the Virgin Shepherdess will return to the Capuchinos districtwhere the party will last until late in the morning.
