gray morning, those who inspire sadness, silence and melancholy. The rain did not want to intrude, is the second week of waiting until we finish, and we have advanced in the eastern side, that of the spurs that cling deep to avoid falling into the stream bed.
is dry, clean now, and speculate on her beauty when water runs. Brambles have left us "Ecce Homo." It was a dour struggle, with all the weapons ready. One departs, but together they are "enemy" hard to beat, as usual with which to defend Cilniana Spider heritage.
The vision of the building has improved so much media noise and our campaign is so loud that the visits have grown considerably. Many people go through, even just to say hello. Activity know, we know, send us messages of support and comfort.
At half we have met and there has been the subject of the origins of the whys and when something difficult to elucidate its popular character and the lack of written sources. We know that early settled in Marbella XVI a family Franciscan Minors, General observant emerged after the Reformation in 1517, advocates of true evangelical poverty, as described in 1615 by the chronicler John of Santa Maria: "short and narrow habit and patched bags ... bare foot walking on land, in keeping with a great end poverty and attempt to collect more, living usually in places more remote and lonely."
Who knows if it was them or others, if he was a religious order behind or was the result of popular devotion? These shrines are considered miraculous healing properties, "De los Remedios, were built near a source (we have not found any and the nearest of Calañas, is more than a mile away). Sometimes they are natural landmarks (a large rock for example) or a mythical fact happened in the place (an appearance). Are still many unknowns.
In this atmosphere of spiritual alienation from urban centers there are shrines to live alone, detached from worldly goods, to the maximum poverty, prayer and penance, are the "deserts" or "barren saints , extreme space, away from the civilized world, usually in remote and wild places, where we develop a spiritual life tremendously demanding.
As demanding as our work progresses apace. We ended up exhausted, also renewed intentions. There are few days.
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