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La Cruz, found in the deathbed of Santa Teresa, the Carmelite Mothers have custody of Brussels and stay in Caravaca until the second week of October
A delegation of about thirty caravaqueños and headed by the mayor, Jose Moreno, and older sister, Elisa Giménez-Giron, traveled to the city of Avila to collect Caravaca Cross who accompanied St. Teresa during part of their life and was found on his deathbed.
The wooden replica of Caravaca de la Cruz has been so far kept in the convent of the Discalced Carmelite Mothers Brussels.
Among the events of the V Centenary of the Birth of Saint Teresa of Jesus, the prior of the Discalced Carmelites in Caravaca, Father Pascual Gil, Teresa requested that the relic temporarily return to the city where he went nearly five centuries ago.
Finally, Cruz arrived to Avila in the hands of Father Joseph Guicquel, French Discalced Carmelite, he has been commissioned to carry the cross from Brussels.
This Teresian relic will be in Caravaca until the second week of October.
First, it will remain in the temple Jubilee Teresa convent of the Carmelite Fathers, until September 16 and subsequently be exposed for veneration in the Shrine Basilica de la Vera Cruz, in a small chapel near the altar of St. Lazarus.
It is a wooden cross, double arm, 8.5 x 4 centimeters, with a metal plate on the back, bearing the inscription: "This cross took our Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus in his life and after death found in his bed. "
The mayor, accompanied by the mayors Enrique Fuentes and Oscar Martinez, said that "this pilgrimage is a significant event for Caravaca, as the city is united, even further, to a network of" Sisters Cities and tourist route and Cultural Traces of Teresa, launched to mark the V Centenario. "Meanwhile, the older sister of the Brotherhood highlighted the emotion felt to be the relic of the Holy in his hands and showed his gratitude to all Carmelites have Cruz made it possible to return to the city in full celebration of the Teresian Year.
History of the Cross of Caravaca de Santa Teresa
In 1576 a group of pious, after hearing the homily of a Jesuit, decide to withdraw into a house in the municipality and request Teresa founding a convent.
At that time the first Doctor of the Church was in Beas del Segura, but the difficult terrain and the problems with the foundation in Seville make it unable to be present in Caravaca and send one of his most faithful sisters, Anne San Alberto, who arrives in Caravaca carrying the letter with the orders of the Holy to create the XII Foundation seventeen create in life.
As a thank you, Anne of St. Augustine sent a Caravaca Cross Santa Teresa take until the end of his days.
It was his nurse in his last months of life, Anne Bartholomew, who collected the relic after the Holy deceased.
The nun was moved to Paris, carrying the Cross of Caravaca and later was responsible for founding convent in Brussels, from that moment the relic has remained within the cloistered convent in Belgium.
"Traces of Teresa", most international
The "Footprints of Teresa" project brings together the seventeen Spanish cities, including Caravaca de la Cruz is included.
The coordinator of the Association, Hector Palencia, said that "more and more countries are interested in knowing the tourism project footprints Teresa".
A project that, in the words of Palencia, "will not end with the closing of the V Centenario, but will continue to advocacy and will expand over time."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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