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visita guiada 2018

Do you want to know the Royal Sanctuary of the Mountain?

There are still places for the first guided tour 2018. Do you sign up? The Royal Sanctuary of San José de la Montaña, home of devotees to San José, pilgrims and children welcomed at risk of social exclusion opens quarterly its doors for a concerted visit. A Sanctuary of Devotion to San José built from the Faith of Beata Petra Blessed Petra of Saint Joseph arrived in Barcelona in 1886 and had, along with the other Mothers of Forsaken, a house for orphaned children. The houses became small one after another and the Providence led to the hands of Blessed Petra an inert land called “the Peeled Hill” above the Villa de Gracia. This area of ​​farms, very far from what was then Barcelona was the place where Beata Petra knew that she had to build the first Sanctuary dedicated to the figure of Saint Joseph. The effort, tenacity, Faith…

To Commemorate the Holy Year of Mercy

On November 20, Pope Francis closed the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica, thus closing the Holy Year of Mercy. Along with the papal basilicas of Rome (St. Peter’s Basilica, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls and St. Mary Major), there are four other holy doors in different parts of the world. In Spain there is the one in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and the one in the Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana. The doors are normally sealed from the inside so that they cannot be opened. They are opened during Jubilee years, when pilgrims enter through the doors to gain the plenary indulgence related to the Jubilee. History of the holy doors The tradition of a Holy Door during a Jubilee dates back to the 15th century. Pope Martin V opened the Holy Door for the first time in the history of the Jubilee…