He Holy Monday From 2026, the pallium of Santa María de la Merced will be admired in white and not in blue, after a prior process of restoration of the embroidery and the past in white fabric.
For these conservation tasks, the brotherhood … of Merced receives 20,000 euros grant from the Provincial Deputation of Cordoba, in its 2025 call: recovers the embroidered pieces, makes stabilization of its tissues and the improvement of its aesthetic reading.
It also ensures the conservation the future and that they can be seen again in all their fullness, as reported by the La Merced brotherhood. After this phase, the work of transferring the embroidery from the blue velvet to the new support is progressing well in the embroidery workshop of Antonio Villaras detailed by the brotherhood.
The decision to opt for the white support for the canopy was made in town hall extraordinary general of the brothers in February 2023.
The bishop, with the elder sister and members of the brotherhood
The Merced Corporation has just presented to bishop from Córdoba, Jesús Fernández, the events he will carry out around Santa María de la Merced in view of the fiftieth anniversary of his blessing.
The new big sister, Ana Gema Torricoin the company of the spiritual director, the parochial vicar of San Antonio de Padua and members of the board of directors, held a meeting with the prelate to explain the planned program.
He year 2026 It will be about commemorating half a century since the blessing of the Virgin, work of Francisco Buiza, and with this visit they received his approval and pastoral direction in the development of these cults and special events.
It will be a very intense period and other gestures foreshadow it, such as the recent donation of seven emeralds from Colombia, six legitimate ones from Bogota and one from Barranquilla, for the trousseau of Santa María de la Merced. It is an offering from Jesús María López, Brother of Mercy.
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