The Virgen de la Macarena is already on the Andalusian Institute of Heritage to research her state after her controversial restoration | Culture | EUROtoday

The picture of La Esperanza Macarena de Sevilla has been transferred to the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) on Wednesday to be subjected to a number of exams that decide its state after the controversial restoration that precipitated the complaints of the parishioners. The Brotherhood of the Macarena goals to show off the criticisms unleashed by the contact -ups that had been carried out successively and hurriedly in lower than 24 hours (the weekend of June 21 and 22), in a course of that suffered from lack of transparency by the brotherhood.

The switch has been made with all discretion, as deliberate, in an hour during which there was no transit via the streets of the Andalusian capital, to journey in a couple of minutes the three kilometers that separate the basilica from the IAPH headquarters, as sources of the Brotherhood have knowledgeable Efe. There the picture has been deposited to be subjected to numerous exams on Wednesday so as to decide what its standing is earlier than submitting it to in -depth restoration.

This motion happens after an earlier intervention within the picture for 4 days within the basilica itself that precipitated the anger of many devotees, which criticized the location of some eyelashes and, subsequently, additionally the change within the facial features of the Virgin throughout the emergency work made after the protests.

A bunch of brothers from La Macarena has headed a signature assortment to ask that there are clear explanations by the Brotherhood, of which two members of their Board have resigned for these details.

Once the exams are completed, Esperanza Macarena shall be taken again to its basilica, which can even happen at daybreak, to be uncovered to the cult after 10.00 within the morning on Wednesday.