“Under your protection we take refuge, Holy Mother of God.” The prayer was carried out by contemplating Our Lady of Amparo in the streets of Cordoba. The pleas on behalf of the deceased were more insistent than ever, raised by the victims of Dana in Spain.
The black ribbon on his step invited us to remember those who so need his protection. On Friday afternoon, the Huerto brotherhood dressed its holder in glory as he walked the streets near his church in San Francisco, on the eve of All Saints’ Day, among a large audience.
Sobriety and elegance were, as always, the dominant note, with the steps of the Tubamirum music groupfrom Cañete de las Torres, a group that has existed for a quarter of a century and has been present in recent years at this November 1 event in Córdoba.
The marches “Bajo tu Amparo” and “Gethsemani” and, shortly after, “Ione” created, as night fell, an intimate and funeral at the turn to enter San Francisco Street and the streets that would come.
The Virgin of Amparo once again brought comfort to all those who found her, in the windows, balconies, doors, sidewalks and squares along the usual route and the passage was guided by the foreman Luis Miguel Carrión ‘Curro ‘.
THE white carnationsliturgical color of the day, were arranged in pots of different sizes and referred to All Saints’ Day and the purity of the Mother of God.
Rosario del Carmen
An hour earlier, at five o’clock in the afternoon, he left Our Lady of Carmen from his sanctuary, the Church of San Cayetano, in rosary of souls for the deceased, to visit the Royal Church of San Pablo, where mass took place at seven o’clock.
The voices of the choir of the archconfraternity of Carmen brilliantly sang the couplets and traditional songs of the Carmelites while we saw that the Virgin was on a new base Rococo and wore gaudy silk bows and flowers on her gold-embroidered cape, made by Pablo Ruiz Banús.
The gesture had particular symbolism in memory of the victims of the Floods in Valenciaby wearing a brooch with the Virgin of the Abandoned, patroness of this land. This rosary of souls was applied to all those who suffered the ravages of Dana in Spain.
She also carried the shields of the brotherhoods of Expiración and Rocío, which received her in San Pablo. It is precisely in this temple that Our Lady of the Virgin remained all day kissing her hands. Rosary in his Crowned Sorrowful Mysteries, of the Expiration.
For the occasion, the Virgin of the Rosary presented a rose gold brooch with 19th century river pearls and garnets, French lace in gold metallic thread and silk and needle lace borders.
In the morning, the Center attended the morning rosary of Virgin of the Angelsin which the parish of San Miguel was visited. The deceased of the Cistercian brotherhood this year were also very present and, in particular, those who died and disappeared due to the torrential rains.
They prayed for the recovery of the victims and for all those who collaborate in the saves. The frame of the Queen of Angels featured friezes and a center composed of camellia leaves, white pitiminí roses, tuberose and gladiolus. Cantabile performed a selected repertoire of motets and prayers that highlighted the solemnity of All Saints’ Day.
The Virgin of Sorrows wears the new skirt
It was an intense day also in the parish of San Lorenzo, since Our Lady, Mother of God in their sadness It remained exposed without interruption in the kisses of the hands in the chapel of the Ánimas brotherhood. The Virgin wore her new skirt in silver fabric, made by Mercedes Castro with old embroidery, for the 50th anniversary of her arrival at the brotherhood.
Likewise, in the church of San Andrés, the kiss of the hand of the Virgin of Charityof the Buen Suceso brotherhood, which received the prayers of its faithful.
