Juan José Primo Jurado: The Pure and Clean – kudupinter World News Network

Under a pristine blue sky, we celebrate Today the feast of the Immaculate Conception. This dogma of the Church was proclaimed by Pius IX on December 8, 1854, but long before, our nation was already celebrating it. Loyal infantry has it like … patron saint since the “Miracle of Empel” in 1585 and today at the foot of Cerro Muriano there will be a great celebration and the most important decoration given by Spain, the Royal Order of Charles III, created in 1771, has an Immaculate Conception, to which the monarch was devoted, for its image and the blue color for its motto. Baroque art, in short, from Murillo to Alonso Cano, via Palomino, has this dedication excellent examples. Perhaps you do not know, and that is why I am going to tell you, the importance that Córdoba had in the diffusion of the conceptionist cult.

The devotion to Pure and Proper Conception in Cordoba has its roots in the Late Middle Ages and acquired undeniable strength throughout the 16th century, especially in the last third. The intensity of the phenomenon is clearly reflected through a series of indicators such as the numerous chapels dedicated to this Marian dedication and to the vitality of the brotherhoods erected in the different temples of the city.

Juan Aranda Doncelthe great researcher and connoisseur of the modern History of Cordoba, who will give a lecture next Thursday at the Royal Academy on this theme, delved into the passionate and transcendental controversy that occurred in 1614. On December 8 of that year, the Dominican Brother Cristóbal de Torresdefender of devotion to the Rosary, confessor and protégé of the prelate of the diocese Fray Diego de Mardones, questioned the Immaculate Conception from the pulpit of the Cathedral and was quickly answered by the lectoral canon of the Cordoba chapter Álvaro Pizaño.

The spark, transformed into fire, immediately spread to Seville and other Andalusian cities, “where the immaculate conception of the Virgin is ardently defended.” The commission formed by Mateo Vázquez de Leca and Dr. Bernardo del Toro in the city of Seville with the unconditional support of the Archbishop Pedro de Castro and Quiñones“, will be decisive in the importance that the problem acquires both at the court of Philip III and at the Holy See.”

Between 1616, when Philip III established a Royal Junta, and December 8, 1661, when Philip IV obtained from the Papacy the defense of the Immaculate Conception and the ban on teaching otherwise, the Monarchy developed an intense work of promotion of this mystery.

Embassies to Rome followed one another and the main Spanish cities were linked, in one way or another, to the defense of the territory. “the honor of Mary” which, in turn, was widely defended by the Franciscans wherever they were found. It all started in Cordoba.

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