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Virgen de los Reyes (Virgin of the Kings), La Dehesa, El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain
Commemorated on First Saturday of July, September 24, January 5
The most important festival of El Hierro is the Fiesta de la Virgen de los Reyes , held every four years, on the first Saturday of July. During the party moves to the patron saint of the island, from his sanctuary in La Dehesa ( La Frontera ) to the capital of the island ( Valverde ), making a tour of 44 kilometers (way of the Virgin) that crosses all locations El Hierro. A picture accompanying the dancers performing traditional dance of the Virgin, dressed in white and red suits with brightly colored caps while sounding their musical instruments: chácaras and whistles (a kind of flute). The duration of the festival is about one month. She attended almost all the inhabitants of the island as well as some 4000 visitors. 30 In addition to the festivities, every year the following festivals and local festivals are held in different centers and neighborhoods of the peoples of the island: History
Virgen de los Reyes dedicated to the Virgin Mary venerated in the island of El Hierro ( Canary Islands , Spain ). It was canonically crowned on May 17th of 1953 . He is the patron saint of the island of El Hierro and its main feast day is September 24 .
Description
The herreña patron is a size dress style Gothic - Renaissance of the sixteenth century , polychrome wood is and has been restored over the years, suffering numerous variations. Thus, in 1896 , the image was transferred to the municipality of La Orotava on the island of Tenerife , where the sculptor Nicholas Perdigón restores the hands and face. In 1952 , she was sent to Las Palmas for other restoration and two decades later, the Marian image restored again, this time by sculptor Tenerife Ezequiel de León . In all likelihood was not originally a picture of garments, neither corresponds to the canons used in the Renaissance for such representations. According to researcher Dacio Darias: "While it might have occurred to its original size can be changed or, at least, transformed into the actual dress" .
The image of the Virgen de los Reyes takes his son on his right hand, while he raises his arm in a gesture of pointing to his mother. The Virgin carries in his left hand a golden scepter. The image of the Child Jesus has also undergone changes and that conducted by Juan Bautista Register Guard in 1885 , differs from the current one. On May 24 of 1941 founded the Brotherhood of the Virgen de los Reyes (current, Foundation Virgen de los Reyes ). The size received the canonical coronation on May 17 of 1953 and 1960 directs his throne Lucena in Córdoba .
Approval
La Bajada de la Virgen de los Reyes, is held the first Saturday of July every four years. Here the Virgin is moved from her sanctuary in La Dehesa de Sabinosa , unpopulated mythical land of shepherds, to the capital of the island, Valverde , during which covers the main towns of the island.
In 1643 , the Virgen de los Reyes, which was attributed to a severe drought that struck the island, was proclaimed "patron holder of the Waters" . The reason that led to the Descent of the Virgin, was another drought that loomed over the island in 1740 , and that ravaged their cattle and decimated its inhabitants. To beg salvation they marched to the cave ask Caracol water , and there auparon his mother "Madonna" and carried in procession of prayers to Valverde. Upon reaching the mountain Ajare, the miracle happened. A torrential rain triggered on the island.
From this miracle, the Virgen de los Reyes is acclaimed as patron of the whole island of El Hierro. Although so far and since 1405 , the patron saint of the island was the Immaculate Conception venerated in the parish of the same name in the island capital. 1
La Bajada is a feast of extraordinary folk flavor, which play a key role dancers, who are joining the procession as the Virgin passes through the villages of forced and traditional itinerary. The music of this drop is composed of more than twenty short dances, all different and have their own music, Santo Domingo , Redondo , Tajaraste , etc, the dancers are changing touch and rhythm as the whistle or flute six holes, made handmade, and chácaras and drums.
After reaching the Marian image to the Villa de Valverde is imposed on the baton of the capital by the mayor and enters the picture in the Church of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (which is the mother church of the island). Once in Valverde, the pilgrim image for the different peoples of the island. Lasts about a month until the first fall Saturday of August , after which the Virgen de los Reyes returns to her sanctuary in La Dehesa for another four years. The latest drop was between July and August 2013 and the next will be in 2017 . They celebrated 68 editions since 1745 , the year immediately following one divisible by 4 (except in 1801 and 1901 , corresponding to the following one leap year).
Apart from the drop every four years, the Virgin is the also held every January 6 (the anniversary of his arrival on the island), the April 25 , at the "Feast of the Shepherds" and every September 24 in the Day Grande de la Virgen de los Reyes, this last day is insular party.
Ephemeris [ edit ]
La Virgen de los Reyes has made extraordinary drops out of the four years corresponding to each descent. One of them took place on the occasion of the construction of the Diocesan Seminary Nivariense , in which he traveled throughout the island in 1964 and all island patrons of the Diocese of Tenerife.