While the Virgin of Hope Macarena continues to receive faithful and devotees after the return to worship after its restoration by Pedro Manzano, the brotherhood already announces on its website that the traditional kiss of the hands will be celebrated between the 18th and … 21 of that same month. The painful one will only stay in the locker room for a week while she will once again be with her brothers and her followers in a massive cult for years..
However, we will have to pay attention to the news that arrives from the basilica and the Arch, because the board of directors chaired by José Antonio Fernández Cabrero says goodbye and a new one arrives, headed by Fernando Fernández Cabezuelo. It is expected that it will be at the end of this week of the Immaculate Conception that the offices will take office and that immediately it will be necessary to prepare the kiss of the hands of the Virgin of Hope.
In addition, it is necessary to comment as a singularity, that this 2025 It has been a century since the creation of this cult in the parish of San Gil at the time when Juan Manuel Rodríguez Ojeda was the most popular figure in the Madrugada brotherhood. It is for this reason that the next elder brother assured that “as soon as the board is present, they will work to organize the kissing of hands in the temple.”
These dates could therefore vary, even if tradition dictates that the Virgin of Hope is present on the day of the kissing of the hands. In previous years, the board of directors tried to have this service coincide with the weekends before or after the Day of the Waiting of the Virgin so that more faithful could come to the basilica.
In anticipation of this year’s event and if it is finally celebrated in the parish of San Gil, it will also be necessary to take into account the characteristics of this temple and the way in which the altar of the presbytery will be erected since there is a canopy with the image of the Saint and two chapels at the head of the temple such as that of the Virgin of Carmen and the Sacramental (formerly of the Virgin of Hope).
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