Mary Most Holy of the Rocío

"La Novia de Málaga" · Church of San Lazaro · Coronada

In the Malagasy neighborhood of La Victoria venerates Mary Most Holy of the Rocío, painful of the Holy Week of Malaga so dear that the city calls it "the Bride of Malaga." It was canonically crowned in 2015.

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History and origin

La imagen actual, obra de Pio Mollar In 1935, he reproduces an earlier one of the same author destroyed in 1931. Hidden during the Civil War - which allowed his salvation - was blessed on April 10, 1938. Procesione at Easter Holy Tuesdayand celebrates his holiday on Pentecost Monday.

The "Bride of Málaga"

By the delicacy of his face, the Malagasy know her affectionately as "the Bride of Málaga". Since 1972 he has received the floral offering every Holy Monday "A Clavel for El Rocío". Among her devotees, singer Rocío Jurado was named a bridesmaid.

The canonical coronation

Adopted in July 2012, the canonical coronation was held on 12 September 2015 in the cathedral of Malaga.

Favors and popular devotion

The Bride of Málaga collects the fervor of an entire city, which entrusts her to her sorrows and thanks her for her favors kept in the devout memory of her cofrades, without this being a formal ecclesiastical declaration.

Mary by the Cross

Like all painful, the Roch brings us closer to the serene pain of the Mother next to the Passion of her Son. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith which Mary always leads us to Jesus.