Only the Easter weekwith its undeniable personality and the Christmas lighting of recent years, can compete with quince meat as an element of identification of Puente Genil abroad. Throughout Spain and also abroad.
The sweet, with its … incomparable cans, it is one of the most popular products of Genil Bridge and now Pope Leo XIV has just met him, who received this gift at the Vatican from a priest who had just passed through the city.
As the diocese of Cordoba points out on its website, it was obtained through the priest Salvador Aguilera López, who preached the mass of the Purísima Concepción, the patroness of Puente Genil, on December 8.
That day, Salvador Aguilera gave the brotherhood the blessing of Holy Father and imposed on the Virgin a rosary that he himself had offered. Leo XIV. He is a priest very close to the Pope because of his position in the Vatican.
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Born in Ronda in 1982, he is a doctor of theology and expert in Eastern liturgies and of the Spanish-Mozarabic rite and since 2013, he has exercised his ministry at the Vatican as an official of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In January 2024, Pope Francis appointed him consultant to the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches.
In recognition of his “important work”, Leo XIV appointed him Chaplain of His Holiness and he received it this Saturday morning, after the jubilee audience. There he offered him the candy, prepared especially for him and in an exclusive box.
Back and bottom of the can of quince meat
On one side he carries the shield of the Pope, chosen for this pontificate, and on the other the image of the Virgin with the legend “I am the The purest Design by Puente Genil. The iconic candy is now available
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