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Christ who he protected Sevilla in other Epidemics

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By Seville on 16/03/2020

More than six hundred years, the Holy Crucifix of St. Augustine moved mountains of faith and trusting in Him Rogation processions stood plague epidemics, They are slowed floods, is palliated drought, the rains came, were less bloody wars and disasters were less for Sevilla.

It was that Christ Gothic, with natural hair, of the big convent of the Augustinians. apocryphal patron of the city, since the middle ages, before being Easter it is, She accompanied him in devout procession to the Calvary de la Cruz of the Field, and that in the XVI, with the strength of the fervor that woke, He managed to bring together a brotherhood of penance that left the Good Friday, At three in the afternoon, in an era of splendor was diluted until the XVIII disappeared Corporation.

The image would, in 1835 the neighboring parish of San Roque, where it reorganizes the cofradías, just getting out in procession, the Magdalena or the Virgin and San Juan. Sevilla saw him in the streets for the last time in 1926. Ten years later, the 18 July 1936, He succumbed alongside the Lord of Sorrows and Our Lady of Grace and Hope, in the fire caused by uncontrolled Republicans who destroyed the parish, while an orchestra played from a nearby terrace. Thanks to the efforts of the Brotherhood, from 1991 recovering an interrupted tradition 1957, every 2 July, The City Council renewed the vow of thanksgiving to Christ by the extinction of an epidemic of plague that devastated Seville 1649.

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