The Javier brothers continue to work on preparing the Jesuit Church of the Sacred Heart and the Church of the Louise for the arrival of the Christ of Souls, the Virgin of Grace, and Amparo on January 17. … Among the many wonders that remained inside the temple, there is a painting of the Virgin, which is linked, according to the brothers’ research, to Rome and with San Francisco de Borja.
It is a copy of the well-known icon of Saint Mary preserved in the basilica on the Esquiline, which may date back to the seventeenth century when these paintings arrived in various Spanish Jesuit houses. especially, This was in the Church of the Virgin of San Lucas in the novitiate And then it moved to this church when the Society of Jesus moved to this enclave at the end of the nineteenth century.
Studies on this painting indicate that during Saint Francis Borja’s visit to the Eternal City, he ordered copies of the Salus Populi Romani to be brought to Spain and one of them ended up in Seville, in the aforementioned novitiate which is currently the Church of San Luis de los Francis and the annex building. Researchers are focusing on the hypothesis that it is a copy from the seventeenth century due to the number of relics and even previous notes distributed throughout the altar, which draws attention inside the huge complex..
It should be noted that other Jesuit altarpieces at San Luis de los Francis have a “similar model” to that of the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart: earlier relics and votives are distributed across altars dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis Xavier, and Saint Francis Borja within a Baroque iconography that developed throughout much of Europe.
The altar inside the nave is actually two
This altar with the image of the Virgin on the side of the mission is located to the right of the Church of the Sacred Heart on Jesús del Gran Poder Street, and is in a nave of two because the temple “grows” towards the right side in two navees while on the left there is only one nave where the Virgin of the Sacred Heart of Pérez Comendador and the Silver Altar of Caetano González with the Milagrosa or Silver Altar are located. The Animas Chapel, where Father Taryn rests.
It is another curiosity of the church that the Sevilleans are discovering again thanks to the Javier brotherhood and the efforts of the brothers to preserve the assets found in it. Inside the temple there are images dating back to the Minimum Order, such as the Virgin of Victories, and to the Jesuits, such as the Image of the Sacred Heart.