Marian devotion
Our Lady of Mercy
Sevilla · Church of Santa Genoveva · Coronada
In the Sevillian district of Santa Genoveva se venera a Our Lady of Mercy, painful of Holy Monday, work of José Paz Vélez. It was canonically crowned in 1997.
Main data
History and devotion
The image, work of José Paz Vélez in 1956, he is the holder of the Brotherhood of Santa Genoveva, which performs his station of penance the Holy Monday in the Holy Week of Seville. The corporation has as its protector the Hope Macarena, to the point that on its 50th anniversary it processed with the mantle "El Camaronero," property of the Macarena. In 1999 he received the gold medal of the city.
The canonical coronation
It was canonically crowned in 1997, culminating the devotion of the neighborhood to its headline.
Favors and popular devotion
The neighborhood of Santa Genoveva entrusts the Mercedes with its sorrows and thanks it for the favors kept in the devout memory of its brothers, without this being a formal ecclesiastical statement.
Mary, Mother of Mercy
Under the title of the Mercedes - the gifts and mercies of God - Mary shows herself a generous Mother. 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 Santa Genoveva district in Seville and for those who venerate this advocation of Mary.
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