The elected elder brother of the Macarena, Fernando Fernández Cabezuelo, joined the long queue this Monday that reached practically to the end of the wall to meet the Virgin of Hope after four months of restoration. Cabezuelo arrived around … the basilica around 1 p.m. stand at the end of the enormous parade of faithful gathered since dawn to see for themselves the result of Pedro Manzano’s interventionsupported by a team from IAPH, from which Macarena has been absent for exactly four months.
He told this newspaper that he chose to wait in line since the outgoing board had not contacted him and so he waited for hours “like another brother.” The winner of last week’s elections in the Madrugada brotherhood had already been able to see the Virgin, “even if it has not finished”, so he feels great peace. “Now I will be able to see it very closely, pray again and it will be completely finished and perfect.”
Cabezuelo pointed out that a few hours before the doors of the basilica opened, at 6 a.m., there were already people waiting. “With how cold it must have been and having to withstand queues of more than three hours, it gives an idea of what Seville expects from the Virgin.” Once he enters, “I will try to be as close to her as possible”. Then, he said, he will hold a meeting with his team to organize the hand-kissing in San Gil. In this sense, he commented that “once they told us that they rejected the hand kiss that we proposed to them (to the outgoing board of directors), we began to implement it.”. So, he stressed, “they had already prepared it” but faced with the refusal of the current officers, “we are going to start putting it together.”
Regarding big days like this festive December 8 in which Seville took to the streets to visit Esperanza, Cabezuelo assures that “there is little to say to the Macarenos. “They know how to enjoy the Virgin and are very happy with what she is.” Of course, he stressed that the faithful “will find more closeness with the Virgin because of the way we are going to organize the kiss of hands, because of the way it will be organized.”
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