Marian devotion
Our Lady of Hope
Alicante · Church of Mercy · Coronade
En la iglesia del Misericordia de Alicante se venera a Our Lady of Hope, painful Palm Sunday. In 2011 it became the first painful image canonically crowned alicantine.
Main data
History and devotion
The imagen, a sevillano obra Antonio Castillo Lastrucci in 1943, he is the holder of the Brotherhood of the Great Power and Hope, and performs his station of penance the late night of the Palm Sunday. With a young and serene face with tears, he is dressed to imitate the Esperanza Macarena of Seville, including the five broches of the chest, shows the deep influence of the Sevillian in the Holy Week of Alicantina.
The canonical coronation
En 2011 was canonically crowned, being the first painful image of Alicante to receive this distinction.
Favors and popular devotion
Under the title of Hope, the Alicantines entrust Mary with her longing and thank her for the favors kept in the devout memory of her cofrades, without this being a formal ecclesiastical statement.
Mary, our hope
"Our hope, God save you," says the Church. In this advocation, Mary holds the hope of the Christian people with the Cross. She goes with him. Holy Rosarywith which the Virgin always leads us to her Son.
A flower for the Virgin
He is praying for the city of Alicante and for those who venerate this advocation of Mary.
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