The parish priest also assures that he will speak with the owners of the property to clarify what happened and that, if the facts are confirmed, he will urge the desacralization of the hermitage.
The Archbishopric of Madrid, for its part, has published a statement in which “with the desire to avoid confusion,” he explains that “he was not informed or consulted about the possibility of holding said celebration, being a unilateral act of the estate that will have canonical effects in this regard. In no case is it permitted to perform a civil marriage within a religious venue.”
Furthermore, the note adds that “family hermitages can only be used for the purpose that the Church grants them,” and therefore “they cannot be a place for public religious celebrations, unless expressly authorized by the bishopric.”
Likewise, “they cannot be used for commercial purposes or places of civil celebrations of any kind. In fact, at the time they were conceived solely for private devotional use of the family that owned it and in no case to be offered as an optional lucrative service of a company dedicated to the organization of social events.”