The return of the Macarena to worship after the restoration by Pedro Manzano will leave many impressions and one of the first of the morning of December 8, 2025 is that of 20 flower centers arrived … at the basilica as an offering to the Virgin with verses from the poem that the late Rafael Serna dedicated to her in his proclamation of Holy Week in 2016.
The faithful entered the temple around ten thirty in the morning and placed the flowers just behind the image, in front of the high altar presided over by the Lord of Sentence, and they organized themselves to prepare this “singular procession” in Calle Muro, the road that connects Escoberos to the Plaza de la Esperanza Macarena.
In the centers, several verses of Serna’s proclamation of the poem can be read on tape: “Who made you Queen Mother? / Who filled you with Grace? / Which brush created the strokes without touching a folder when your face appeared? Another part of this text, which hundreds of brothers still remember, is visible in the centers as it is: “How could he not even look at you? / Would I know then that the image I carved would shake the foundations, the coverings of the soul / and never again in time / would there be no one equal to you?
These flowers are just a few of the thousands that will accompany the Macarena on this day of the Immaculate Conception and in the days to come, when the faithful leave offerings at her feet. In addition, Florists are out of stock like Ramitos, who closed this festive day after having supplied the Macarena brotherhood and the hundreds of orders it received for December 8..
The gestures and details towards the Virgin of Hope Macarena will continue after several months of restoration by Pedro Manzano and with a work that made it painful with the appearance “lush” and as if “she were still 19 years old”, as the poem by Joaquín Caro Romero says.
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