On Saturday, January 12, the members of the pro-life movement from Saragossa (Spanish Zaragoza) came to the convent of the Carmelite Sisters In Igualada-Jorba to take over the care of the Częstochowa Icon and take Her to their city 300 kilometres away.
-
Also available:
In the evening on Friday, the tenth of January, the Częstochowa Icon came to the school of Colegio del Rincon de Nuestra Senora in Prado, in the town of San Cugat del Valles which has 80 thousand inhabitants. It received a warm welcome from the students who prayed before Her class after class all day.
-
Also available:
Still at night on the 9th of January, continuing Her pilgrimage in Catalonia, the Mother of God went 35 km. inland to the farming area of Sentmenat, in the diocese of Tarrasa, to visit the Colegio Corazon de Maria (The school of the Immaculate Heart of the Virging Mary), run by the Foundation of Father Piulachs.
-
Also available:
Late in the evening on the 7th of January the Mother of God arrived in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, the second largest city in Spain. The Częstochowa Icon was welcomed and carried into Iglesia Medalla Milagrosa (the church of the Miraculous Medal). She was awaited there by a group of Poles with the local pastor, fr Xavier Pages. The prayers lasted till late at night. It is worth mentioning that Poles in Barcelona have their own little Chapel of Our Lady of Częstochowa, the Queen of Poland, at the parish of St Felix the African, where there is a copy of the Częstochowa Icon blessed by the Holy Father John Paul II on the 7th of November 1982 during his visit to Barcelona. On the 11th of November 2012 the Poles celebrated the 30th anniversary of the image blessing.
All the following day, the 8th of January, the Częstochowa Icon stayed in the church of the Miraculous Medal in Barcelona. At this parish there is CIDEVIDA – the Interenational Pro-Life Centre, second biggest in Spain.
-
Also available:
On the 7th of January early in the morning at 7.30, the pro lifers from the town of Lerida-Lleida left for the shrine of Torreciudad to take over the care of the peregrinating Icon of the Mother of God. It was particularly cold for the south of Spain – 2 degrees below zero. At 9AM, after a solemn farewell the “Life Mobile” went to Tamarite near the town of Lerida.
- The Feast of Epiphany In Torreciudad – the famous Marian shrine of Opus Dei
- Two bishops and four convents in Huesca
- The Angelus in front of a hospital In Logrono – the capital of the autonomous community and region of La Roja.
- Valladolid – The New Year Day at the National Shrine of the Most Prescious Heart of Jesus, Our Lord
- With the Norbertine Sisters in Toro
- The Feast of Holy Innocents in Santiago de Compostella
- Oleiros, Santa Cruz de Laniz - In Spanish Galicia
- Christmas in Oviedo
- Aviles – the next stage of the tour of Asturia
- With Our Lady of Covadonga, Patroness of Asturias