Mary Most Holy of the Angustias

"La Virgen de los Gitanos" · Sevilla · Coronada

In Seville it venerates Mary Most Holy of the Angustias, titular de la Brotherhood of the Gypsies, so the people call her with affection "the Virgin of the Gypsies." Canonically crowned in 1988, it is one of the most painful and painful of the Sepillian Madrugá.

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History and origin

The above image, attributed to José Montes de Oca, was lost when the church of San Román was burned during the July 1936 riots. The brotherhood then commissioned the current image, the work of José Rodríguez y Fernández-Andes, blessed on March 15, 1937, with the polychrome of the face and hands of Juan Balcers. It represents the Virgin at the foot of the Cross, after the crucifixion of her Son, with tears surpassing her face.

The canonical coronation

It was canonically crowned the 29 October 1988 in the cathedral of Seville, by Archbishop Carlos Amigo Vallejo, with a crown work by Manuel Seco Velasco (1972). The duchess of Alba, Cayetana Fitz- James Stuart, was her maid of honor. She is also a patron of organ donors.

Favors and popular devotion

The Virgin of the Gypsies, in the Madrugá of Holy Friday, gathers the fervor of all of Seville, which entrusts her to her and thanks her for her favors kept in the devout memory of her brothers, without this being a formal ecclesiastical declaration.

Mary by the Cross

In their Angustias, we contemplate the Mother who holds the pain of the Passion with unwavering faith. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith which Mary always leads us to Jesus.