Time flies, it doesn’t stop, or maybe it’s always the same and it’s us who pass. But the reality is that the Virgin of the Incarnation of San Benito has already celebrated 31 years since her coronation.. It seems that … It was recently that the painful came out under an awning, in December 2019, the last stage before the pandemic, but the truth is that it is already far away depending on the evolution of the calendar.
The Virgin of the Incarnation He appeared radiant in the presbytery of the high altar,show off one of the great jewels of Seville’s Holy Week embroidery, the exit cloak of the Virgin of Victory of the Cigarrerasa piece designed by Pedro Domínguez López and made by the workshop of Juan Manuel Rodríguez Ojeda between 1895 and 1897.
Over two days received the visit of a multitude of faithful, attracted by the presence of a painful sublime, true banner of San Benito and the neighborhood of Calzada, giving the traditional kiss in one more year as an image crowned by the still archbishop of Seville, brother Carlos Amigo Vallejo.
This weekend the owner of San Benito will be transferred to the Little Sisters of the Poor, a classic of the month of December, to bring the Virgin to the most needy and experience one of the most awaited moments of fraternity throughout an entire year of This image represents the mystery by which God becomes man in the womb of Mary, showing that the divine and the human can unite without being confused. The Incarnation confers immense dignity on the body and human life, since God himself decides to inhabit them and makes Mary the first tabernacle, the living temple where the word resides. It also reveals the tenderness of divine motherhood, since Mary is not only mother according to the flesh, but also Mother of God, a sign of love which is given in humility. Ultimately, the Incarnation symbolizes the act by which God makes himself small so that humanity can rise up to Him and participate in its own life.
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