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Founded
on 1699, the Real, Venerable e Ilustre Hermandad
Servita de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Coronada y el Santísimo
Cristo de la Clemencia ( Royal,
Venerable and Illustrious Brotherhood of the Servants of Our Lady of the
Crowned Dolores and the Saint Christ of the Clemency ), also well known
like "Los Dolores", constitutes
itself like Orden Tercera de la de los Siervos
de la Virgen María (Servitas)(
Third one of the Servants of the Virgin Maria Order ), gathering
the all ages Cordoba inhabitants devotion by the invocation of the Dolores
de Maria, and that he will have, from 1719, in the face of the titular
image of this Brotherhood, work of the sculptor Juan Prieto, to
the most faithful representation of his Lady.
From 1717 the presence of
this Brotherhood in the Semana Santa de Córdoba
is documented.
In 1939 it's added, like
cotitular of the Brotherhood, the image of the Santísimo
Cristo de la Clemencia ( Saint
Christ of the Clemency ), work of Amadeo Ruíz Olmos
( 1939 ), who appears for the first time in the penitential procession
in 1949.
After centuries of constant
devotion, the May 9, 1965, the Virgen de los Doloresis
crowned canonically by Cardinal Bueno Monreal,
being the first Cordobese Virgin who receives such tribute.
The Virgen
de los Dolores is the Saint Patron of Cordoba. In the Semana
Santa of this city, its paso leaves the Viernes
Santo o de Dolor ( Friday of Pain ) and has the more numerous
entourage of nazarenos of Cordoba.
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