Times change and now it is America that evangelizes Seville. Jacquelyne, Colombian, mother abbess of the Monastery of San Clemente, welcomed Sister Yelitza Lorena Cárdenas Briceño, a Venezuelan, into this almost thousand-year-old Cistercian order, in a ceremony that has not lost an iota of its solemnity in a building built in the 13th century and … Read more
The Archbishop of Seville, Jose Angel Saiz Menesespresented this Sunday during the evening mass at the Cathedral his first Diocesan Pastoral Plan for the Archdiocese of Seville. A project that intends to serve as an orientation “to all of us who carry out the performance of the pastoral task in our beloved Archdiocese, and in … Read more
Until November 23, the novena to the Cistercian Saint Gertrude de Helfta, also known as La Magna, takes place at the Royal Monastery of San Clemente. This Cistercian nun lived in Germany in the second half of the 13th century and it was three centuries later when, after the publication of some of her writings, … Read more
The Order of Santiago, born in 1170 by order of King Ferdinand II of León, has celebrated in Seville, under the organization of its Commander in Andalusia, Ana de La Peña Fernandez-Garmelo, the investiture of ten new members, as well as the delivery of the Gold Medal of the Institution to the mayor of the … Read more
José María Ribas Alba (Seville, 1961), known in the wide world as Pepe Ribas, is, in addition to a recognized scholar of the arduous issues of Roman Law and the history of Christianity, a graduate in Higher Seville Studies. This is attested to by books such as ‘Crítica de larazon sevillana. An essay on the … Read more
Manuel LunaCONTINUE Seville Updated:11/07/2022 9:08 p.m. Save Seville will host the International Congress of Popular Religiosity in 2024. This was announced this afternoon by the Archbishop Monsignor José Ángel Saiz Meneses in the inaugural conference of the opening of the brotherhood course at the Cajasol Foundation with the title ‘Pastoral challenges and keys in post-pandemic … Read more
«Shavers and combs, hands and scissors, everything here is at my command …». If you find yourself in Foggia at number 171 viale Colombo, you will feel like you are listening to the lyrical aria of Gioacchino Rossini’s Figaro factotum. For sixty years at this address of the city there has been a shaving room, … Read more
On October 15 we celebrate the feast of Saint Teresa of Jesus, mystic, reformer of Carmel and doctor of the Church. The story of this woman is exciting and begins with the birth of a girl from Ávila, Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, who came into the world on March 28, 1515 and left on … Read more
Times change and now it is America that evangelizes Seville. Jacquelyne, Colombian, mother abbess of the monastery of San Clemente, welcomed Sister Yelitza Lorena Cárdenas Briceño, Venezuelan, in this almost thousand-year-old Cistercian order, in a ceremony that has not lost an iota of its solemnity in a building built in the 13th century and preserved … Read more
All of them suffered, all of them were capable of being in two places at the same time and being seen in both places by numerous witnesses. Perhaps the most famous bilocations today are those of Sor María Jesús de Ágreda, who is credited with the Christianization of New Mexico and which the writer Javier … Read more