A group of priests from the Archdiocese of Valencia (Spain) has celebrated its 25 years of ordination, with a mass and a kiss to the Virgen de los Desamparados.
In a note published in the website From the archdiocese on August 22, it is reported that the Eucharist was held in the Royal Basilica of the Virgen de los Desamparados.
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The priests who have celebrated their silver weddings are José Miguel Cañamás Roig, José Abel Coll Navarro, Francisco Corcoles Bordera, Simón Alberto de los Santos Medina, Francisco José Ferrer Bravo, Jorge García Monsalve; and Daniel Juan Tortosa.
The Luis Ramón Martínez López, José Vicente Olmos Planells, José Francisco Pedrosa Sánchez, Manuel Antonio Romero González, Francisco Javier Ruiz López, Francisco Javier Sánchez Soto, and Miguel Ángel Sargues González, all priests of the Archdiocese of Valencia.
After the Mass, the priests went up to the dressing room for a kiss to the Virgen de los Desamparados. There she prayed before and thanked her “for all these years of protection and grace in their ministry as presbyters.”
The Virgen de los Desamparados
The Virgin of the Forsakers or Geperudeta (humpcardite), named for the inclination of her head down, is the patron saint of Valencia.
His party is celebrated every second Sunday of May, with a mass and a procession in which thousands of faithful participate every year.
This Marian invocation was canonically crowned on May 12, 1923, in the plain of the rise to the bridge of the Real, in the presence of the kings of Spain, Don Alfonso XIII and Mrs. Victoria Eugenia, of the Nuncio Federico Tedeschini; among other civil and ecclesiastical authorities.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.