Fernando Fernández Cabezuelo is already Macarena’s older brother. He was sworn in this afternoon at the basilica and the new board of directors has already taken office. As their first challenge, they must prepare the hand kiss in just five days. … Virgin of Hope in the parish of San Gil on the occasion of the centenary of this cult.
Miguel González de la Bandera, priest of Hope, did not take the oath be responsible for preparing and setting up the hand kiss for the next few days. The other members will have to celebrate in the coming hours the first of the meetings of the officers to organize this extraordinary worship in a very intense week for the Macarena with the return of the Virgin after the restoration of Pedro Manzano and this inauguration.
As Fernando Fernández Cabezuelo pointed out, the kissing of hands will take place in San Gil, although it is necessary to highlight the details of a cult to which thousands of people come every year and taking into account the project that the elder brother must place the benches to be able to pray in front of the Virgin of Hope and the characteristics that the parish has with three naves, side chapels and a presbytery different from that of the basilica.
It is expected that the kiss of hands will take place from the day of the feast of the Virgin of Hope, Thursday 18, until Sunday 21, in an image that will once again be historic for the brotherhood since the image has not returned to San Gil since 2014, when it entered the temple in the extraordinary procession for the half century of its canonical coronation.
Fernando Fernández Cabezuelo takes oath as Macarena’s older brother
In addition, Fernández Cabezuelo and his board of directors will have to face in the coming days appointment of positions of trust of the brotherhood such as the foreman(s), the trainer or the captain of arms, among many other positions in a corporation which already has more than 18,000 brothers.
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