by Studies Institute Library Zamoranos
In a deserted place, half a league in Morales del Vino and Zamora, is a hermit who has no permanent worship, a place that has great significance in the religious history of this area and where each May 9, as today, holds a massive popular pilgrimage in honor of Santo Cristo de Morales, a space which numerous faithful to venerate the image of Christ.
The image that is worshiped is large as those of his time and the Crucified is "still" on the cross. Have some who came "swimming" from afar and the banks of the Duero was taken to a basket. Between "food" rest until he began traveling to ... here. Here was "adopted" and has been witness of the passage of time and man.
His image has been played since 1710 and it is written words that have been printed in Sacred Theology thesis P. Fr Thomas Marquis SOP in 1741, in magazine and newspaper articles in the Bulletin of the Bishop of Zamora, in books ...
On the hermitage D. Muriel Angel Mulas, natural priest Morales del Vino and last chaplain of the chapel of Santo Cristo de Morales drew a little story that was published in the newspaper in 1948.
The chapel of Santo Cristo de Morales has had several names over the centuries. These changes are reflected in the four books in the chapel that currently exist in the book of accounts of the confraternity of la Vera Cruz. Based on them, called Ermita de Santa Cruz de the Media League, from the earliest writings until 1621 (named for the distance between the Hermitage and the capital), Ermita del Santo Cristo de Half League, between 1622 and 1720, Christ Chapel of the Blessed Morales, between 1721 and the nineteenth century and developments in the twentieth century and the beginning of this century Chapel of Santo Cristo de Morales , Zamora well because it keeps calling Morales with the previous name.
The book that I present today taking advantage of the present is a work of Zechariah García Prieto, History of Ermita del Cristo de Morales ", edited by IEZ in that taking into account the above descriptions describe the history of the chapel. And it goes without saying that in any of our libraries you can find it.
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