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Virgin Tresfuentes (Virgin of the Three Rivers), Valgañón, La Rioja, Spain
Commemorated on August 17
In Valgañón there was an apparition of the Virgin to Agnes pastor. Upon hearing Fernando III of Castile, visited the village with his mother Berengaria of Castile and the Bishop of Burgos, laying the first stone of the church, in Romanesque style. History
On November 7, 1224, Bishop Don Mauricio, consecrated the Church of the Villa Valgañón erected recently to the Blessed Virgin appeared and then all will be known as the Virgin of Tresfuentes. In this consecration is recorded in the Latin inscription on the south wall of the temple says CONSECRATA EST ECCLESIA BURGUENSIS MAURICI EPI: DEI: VII: Mensis: NOMBRIS: ANNO: CHRISTO: MCCXXIIII: ERA: MCCLXII.
Valgañón is a town located in the autonomous community of La Rioja. Part of the area called the Rioja Alta. A 64 km from Logroño and 968 m altitude, in the sub-Oja Valley High.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE VIRGIN
Don Isidro Simon was born priest who wrote a compendium Valgañón about the apparition of the Virgin based on an earlier work written in verse in the late seventeenth century by an author named JU was probably a village priest and a Franciscan monk Fresneda monastery.
Hallábase Inés some day grazing careful as usual his sheep on the green and pleasant mount called la Dehesa, and while lying beside a laughing brooklet formed by a spring just above born, was coming down the hill a beautiful lady, beautiful as the rising sun in clouds of pink and pearl, slender waist and sweet and loving face.
Among tremors inspired by the grandeur and majesty of extraordinary vision, Agnes was arrested and comforted her as a sweet mood was even greater confidence and joy when, stopping in front of her, she heard the amorous lady lips these simple words; with pronounced sweet accent
. "Tell me, Agnes, what are you doing here,"
Agnes replied immediately: "Guardo, Lady, even these sheep that my parents entrusted to my care" . "And tell me why you fasting today?" "Because it's Friday and I devotion to fast for the sake of Mary every Friday of the year. " "I like your devotion as much as you dispense your innocence but fasting. Because I trust you have given an important assignment for you and for all the inhabitants of this village Valgañón. Listen therefore attentively, I am, my daughter, the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus and I live here in this town forever. But there are so many sins that offend my beloved Son aquesta yours countrymen, who have been slow to date, the fulfillment of my desire. Already next to fill the measure of divine justice, and before you download Heaven upon them their righteous anger, I want to use my love and mercy with these residents. Low, because Valgañón. Tell this event and tell them if within forty days not repent of his many sins, and amending and correcting all be destroyed without leaving any stone unturned in its entire territory. If they repent, now I promise to be your special protective and dwell here among them. "
And with that, Lady Augusta disappeared. Response shepherd our innocent cause of wonder that so admirable vision, promptly undertook their march towards the Villa, with hurried gait.
INÉS COMMUNICATING THE MESSAGE
He came to his overflowing Inés people happy and at the same time, eager to communicate to their neighbors the content of the message received from the lips of the Lady. However, the immense joy that accompanied it while descending from the Dehesa, soon turned into a cause of distress for the attitude of rejection found in the first persons referred to the contents of his letter. None believe his words, but nevertheless the inhabitants of Valgañón soon know what Agnes said to have happened at Mt.
He presented in full detail the story of this wonderful event, but none gave credence to the words of Agnes. Tratáronla of deluded, others mad and visionary and the most, saying he was dreaming and did not know what she said, although she tried again and again to convince his countrymen of the truth of the facts stated.
SECOND APPEARANCE OF THE VIRGIN
The next day, early in the morning, came with his flock, as his manner was, in search of pasture his sheep needed, while his thoughts went to the happy times spent off the Lady and the bitter disappointment who provided his countrymen .
He immediately made an appearance for the second time the Virgin Mary, and all the troubles that moments before experienced young, he dispelled instantly and joy returned to glow on his face when the Blessed Virgin Mary went back to our shepherdess of this way:
"Is it possible, Agnes, that ungrateful and arrogant people show still hard and rebellious to my maternal voices and your innocent words?"
"Lady Agnes replied between sobs and tears: It's really stubborn and hard this my people, and So I pity most. I think if you yourself do not give me a patent sign of your appearance with giving credit to my words, there will be no remedy for these people, and their destruction is certain. "
No ", do not want to perish, (said the beautiful Lady, as talking to herself) and because you see, Agnes, the desire your salvation and that of your people go in to me and I will give you a sign a permanent wonder. "
He approached the humble shepherdess shy and felt that the Blessed Virgin printed with ineffable sweetness maiden five fingers of his right hand on his left cheek, while transferring all his being such a nice and intense emotion that made her completely happy and blissful. At the same time he heard their heavenly lips, these affectionate words: "That will take a new signal with which you believe your people" and were on the face of the girl the beautiful prints that said virgin fingers he held until his death.
With these glorious signs and patent-still don Isidro-introduced back into people, full of wonder and amazement, the stared hardly daring to approach it: such was the veneration and respect so great that infused that marked face.
It was not necessary that Agnes emplease many words to make them understand the reality of the new miracle for those signs of his face were their reflection point to end to understand they were in a singular event, so that the insults and taunts
recent is cries became the latest to recognize faults and losses, prelude to a formal repentance.
For several days pass in the temple several penitential acts individually and spontaneously performed Valgañón neighbors, and with this spontaneous and general movement of conversion, the venerable and noble Cabildo City Council met to discuss what was good about making and agreed that all the inhabitants were dressed in penance to the Meadow Hill where, according to the testimony of Agnes, Mary had appeared.
And black banners and flags fluttered in the wind and even the sacred images and holy and adorable Cruz, were covered with black veils, the orderly procession walks towards Dehesa, many barefoot, and all the clergy and people crying repented the Lord with songs of heartfelt sorrow. Up the steep and rugged slope leading to the Dehesa, preceded and guided by the shepherd and admired; which, carries on his weak shoulders and a heavy tree and near the hill, Agnes sends all stop and that, alone, charged his cross, exhausted with fatigue, but lively and prodigiously strengthened, lightly directed his steps towards the crystal fountain.
THIRD APPARITION OF THE VIRGIN
There the beautiful charming image is displayed radiating thousand glares and says, "Fear not: you leave and heavy wood and finish your tears and sorrows. Go, go light and tell your people that since my son has heard your cries. He has seen his contrition and accepted his penance and by his mercy, are already forgiven. That is tricked out of their mourning and looking me in this place and would go down to the town today because I want to be protective of Valgañón life. "
Thus spake the Virgin and at the time, disappeared. The charming girl flew to communicate to their new countrymen as good and found prostrate on the ground and humiliated their foreheads while imploring Heaven favor and mercy.
When Agnes told his people the existence of the image that the Virgin Mary had revealed before his eyes was not possible to hold a moment the ardent desire that all had to contemplate the Venerable image. They hurrying, the source found in the beautiful mock the Mother of God with a beautiful boy, smiling and peaceful, sitting on his heavenly arms and leaning back in his loving breast.
With worship, priests, after surrendering to the plants of the Lamb and His Holy Mother, carry on their shoulders the venerable virgin and weight, together with all the people sing hymns and songs of joy and happiness, while down the mountain bearing the image of Our Lady to the chapel to enthrone they decided to have another shrine more in keeping with the importance and sanctity of the image.
IMAGE
The size of our Lady, could well be the time when the Romanesque and Gothic intermingled, so that the sculptures retain characters of both styles.
No image has stiffness and severity of the oldest Romanesque nevertheless Virgin Tresfuentes, without losing any of its regal bearing has a sweet expression of maternal goodness reflected in his smiling face.
Oval face, her features add an air of great serenity and beauty. The almond-shaped eyes, thin eyebrows on a well-marked cheeks frame a straight nose, and perfectly drawn mouth, says an incipient smile. The neckline of your dress or gown is heart-shaped, with a broad frieze decorated or fibula and a medallion in the center. The arrangement of the panels is far from affectation and symmetry in its folds, so that the mantle falls simply naturally from the shoulders on both sides, for terciarse on the right leg. The correct distribution of the folds of the cloak, provide a great sense of realism.
By laying on your left knee to the Son, it provides your feet with a back tension to the fabric. The hands of the Virgin are well crafted and, though large, relatively, are perfect with respect to the face, accentuating its expressiveness. Bring in Granada or the right a flower, and her left hand holds the Child. It keeps the body upright and figure and immobility of the Romanesque, although both faces smiles outlines that although more pronounced in the Mother, do you both very friendly and human.
Tops the head of the Virgin a royal crown forming an integral sculpture, very common in the last part of the Romanesque period. That fleurdelisé crown Tresfuentes Santa Maria, is very typical of the Virgins of the former kingdom of Navarre.
The Infant Jesus sometimes seen sitting on the lap of his Mother, here is seated on the left knee, being her sweet and girlish but with an air of seriousness face, reducing infant grace that often have late representations . With serene attitude and an inclination towards his left hand, blesses with his right hand, while his left hand holds a book resting on the leg on the same side.
One detail that can be expressed regarding Gothic, is that the left hand of the Mother is high, almost on the shoulder of the Child, while the Romanesque images is usually lower. This image, like almost all of the time, it is painted wood, measures 75 inches from the crown to the bottom of the image, and ten inches to the base in which it sits.
One of the acts of the celebration of the seventh centenary of the consecration of the church in 1924, was the lowering of the image from the parish church of San Andrés in procession, with massive support of the people. Neither the elders had news that the image had been never descended from his dressing room when it happened this time, they discovered, not without astonishment, that a strong, broad frame was built to size to prove most visible and colorful dresses and cloaks, like that wooden frames covered with cloth was nailed to it, which it never took off, was paid by the belief that the body lacked the image of the Virgin.
TEMPLE
Tresfuentes Parish is located a little over a mile Valgañón almost 1000 meters altitude, is of Romanesque style, built in the twelfth century. Its present name (until the seventeenth century was called "of Valgañón") is derived from found, according to tradition, in the center of a triangle whose vertices marked three sources.
While it is true that the church is Romanesque, with elements of this style found others like the pointed arch and the height of the walls that can be considered as protogóticos. The mystery of why the church dedicated to Our Lady out of the population was built, not knowing when it was erected in parish arises. Some think that between the ninth and twelfth centuries, Valgañón could coalesce around its legendary castle and in the period from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, Valgañón started the hillside where the Church of Tresfuentes but now doubt this he never found traces of buildings.
This temple is longitudinal orientation plan and apse facing the East, marking the axis of the temple toward the east west. The original building was Romanesque, one ship length of 32.70 meters without walls and 7.5 meters wide deck with a Gothic vault and is now a tower where the spiral staircase.
The construction in the eighteenth century of the side chapels of Salvador, Santo Cristo de la Vera Cruz and the porch floor made her lose the longitudinal shape of the Romanesque and acquired the Latin cross today.
In the Church we can see the apse very well preserved. Capitals with scenes of struggle between good and evil, represented by fighting between animals, lions and birds fighting the snake, and between Muslims and Christians, represented by white men and others with darker complexions.
After the Renaissance portico find the original Romanesque doorway, three archivolts on three pairs of columns. Highlights the sculpted tympanum three Marian scenes, Coronation, Annunciation and Adoration.
The door has original ironwork of the thirteenth century, with beautiful representations of animals and stars.
It has two baptismal fonts, one of two XIII century Romanesque carvings of great importance: the Christ of Banares (XIII) and the statue of the Virgin of Tresfuentes.
THANKSGIVING PARTY
Both the image of the Virgin of Tresfuentes like San Antonio are now in the church of San Andrés and move to that Tresfuentes at parties.
Currently, the penultimate Saturday of August the Thanksgiving holiday celebrated in honor of Our Lady of Tresfuentes. Before the dates were different but in early 1970 changes were made to the dates of the holidays.
On Friday around 12 noon people located in the Plaza de Gonzalo Pedro River waiting for the bell of the clock of the church of San Andrés usher in the holidays at 12 with the loud bang starts tumbling bells.
The festival begins with the dip in the pylon, to continue the humorous Rally championships and games, the children's competition, etc.. to end the day with verbena.
Saturday begins with the target and flowery with giant heads and the Virgin carried in procession to the parish church of Our Lady of the Three Fountains. Subsequently the bowling game, recovered tradition of earlier times, which is only for women and is played with very old rules and evening great festival starts.
The Sunday after the noon Mass there in the square dance and evening finals mus, domino, tute, racquetball and bowling and recently seven play football and a game of handball is played by prominent pelotaris contracted for occasion.
Monday is the day for children and lots of activities for them throughout the morning, afternoon while some peeled potatoes and others put the tables in the square a group of chefs start to prepare the chocolate for children, potatoes with sausage for older and coffee.
The PATATADA begins Monday at 10 pm, is this, like all the above activities, free to anyone who wants it, whether or not the people, tables and chairs are set up for more than 1000 people seated, which is the capacity of the Plaza, and also serves another 500 or so that are around, potatoes with sausage, wine, coffee and cup borne by the Association.
Description
The story goes that in the early 1200s, a girl named Inés was tending her family's sheep on Pasture Hill in northern Spain when a radiant lady appeared, saying, "I am, my daughter, the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, and I want to live here, in this area, always." The Lady entrusted the girl with a mission to tell the people of the village in the valley that they must do 40 days' penance to avoid divine retribution for their sins. At once Inés went down to Valgañón, where her story met with disbelief and scorn. The next day, when she returned with her flock to the hill, the Virgin reappeared, giving Inés a most unusual sign so that people would believe: the print of her fingers, permanently marked on the shepherdess's left cheek. This time, the villagers took her message seriously, and many went to do penance in the church. As the spirit of repentance took hold in the town, after several days the leaders of Valgañón decided that the whole village should go in sackcloth and ashes to Pasture Hill. Like others in the procession, Inés carried a heavy cross. When she reached a spring near the top, she saw the Virgin reappear in radiance saying, "Have no fear: Drop your heavy load and let your tears and burdens cease. Go, go lightly and tell your people that my Son has already heard your cries. He has seen their contrition and accepted their penances and, through his mercy, they are already pardoned. Let them shed their grief and seek me in this place and take me down to the village because from today I want to be the perpetual protector of Valgañon." Inés delivered this good news to the pilgrims and showed them a statue of the Virgin and Child, which they carried down to the church.
The story spread, and in 1218, Ferdinand III of Castile placed the first stone of the Church of Our Lady, consecrated November 24, 1224. The title "de Tresfuentes," "of the three fountains," was added in the 1600s, when three spouts were added to the fountain outside the church. The 2-1/2' polychrome wooden statue does appear to date from the 1200s. Now it is kept in the Church of St. Andrew in Valgañón except during the Thanksgiving fiesta on the next-to-last weekend of August.
Photo by C. Lliso, "Iglesia de San Andres," 1ROMANICO.COM, www.1romanico.com
A cannonade and the pealing of church bells announce the start of festivities at noon on Friday. Saturday's celebration begins with presentation of flowers at dawn. Costumed "giants" conduct the Virgin's statue in procession from the Church of St. Andrew to that of Tresfuentes. In the afternoon, women play a traditional bowling game. A street festival takes place at night. On Sunday after noon mass, there are dancing and games in the plaza. On Monday morning, children have their turn playing games, and in the afternoon, the plaza turns into an open-air kitchen in preparation for the locally famous "Patatada," a communal meal of potatoes, sausage, wine, and coffee served to some 1,500 people at 10:00 pm.
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