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The community of Franciscan Fathers and the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Wonders receive the Patroness of Cehegín this Friday, March 27th, with a Mass at 19:00 after the stay of several months in the image in the center Restoration of the Region of Murcia, as reported by the president of the brotherhood, Alfonso City, who has invited all brothers and cehegineros to attend Mass.

This week the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities has completed the comprehensive study and intervention of significant damage to the image, which reached the center last December 1 to be operated.

The director of Cultural Property, Maria Comas, gave this size eighteenth century Cehegín Mayor Jose Soria, and the president of the brotherhood, Alfonso City, once technicians Restoration Center of the Region of Murcia proved its good structural and internal state.

Attributed to the sculptor Nicolás Fumo (1647-1725), the piece came to Cehegín in July 1725 thanks to the relationship between father Moreno, guardian of the convent, and Pedro Antonio Cartagena and Lorenzo Pereti latter Navy captain who made commissioned a statue of the Virgin and Child Neapolitan sculptor.

Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas is therefore a prime example of Spanish art trade up with the Italian peninsula along the centuries.

Polychrome sculpture carved wood, bright colorful, and 1.37 meters high, has a classical language, moderate baroque, characteristic of Italy, as well as a dynamic arrangement, thanks to the folded mantle and body of the Child Jesus .

The size was taken to Restoration Center of the Region of Murcia for conducting a comprehensive study to identify possible pathologies.

After analysis, experts certified that the state of the piece is good to structural and internally.

Subsequently, we proceeded to the intervention of significant damage, although the sculpture of the eighteenth century should return in the future Restoration Center for comprehensive intervention.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín