On 10 December 1750, after the Brotherhood of the Virgin of Araceli "located in the Sanctuary of the Sierra de Aras, outside of this city, had acquired many portions of maravedis because of charity, that they made up to the amount of 5,000 reais, the then chaplain Don Manuel Gutierrez of Cuenca had bought a house for sale Dona Ana Sanchez Armellón, widow of Don Bartolomé del Pino y Velasco, Maquedano street, this city, to serve ospedaje havitazión and chaplain to the above and other chaplains that henceforth they be of the Sanctuary, and serving brothers of him, and continually in this city is begging for the worship of the Sovereign Picture and maintenance of these, and excused from paying the amounts of maravedis that because of income paid annually of houses that have leased for that purpose. "
Thus, simply in order to have a domicile in the city of Lucena and save the rent was paid until then, right in the middle of the eighteenth century, was incorporated aracelitano heritage building, with an expansion through the purchase of a garage for 1,000 reais to the Count of Las Navas, the October 1, 1803, and subsequent remodeling in 1808, which conserves the doorway and large oak doors of the entrance, would be what people called Lucena, and follow naming as "House of the Virgin."
At the utility, referred in argument to justify the purchase, as chaplain hosting and serving brothers, especially in the seasons, sometimes years, in which the image of the patron was in town for reasons of epidemic, drought or other public calamities, joined other utilities, truly curious.
In the House, of course, kept the belongings that had so venerated image for exorno your altar in his lengthy stays in San Mateo, having to do a specific room and furnishings, which included a cabinet file papers, preserved, dated 1765.
It also enabled a unit, attached to the kitchen to, in large jars half buried, keep the wine, oil and vinegar, which were collected as alms in nomination campaigns spinning the serving brothers throughout Andalusia, Extremadura and areas of Castile.
In the towers, safe from moisture, are guarded in their atrojes, grains, obtained by the same procedure and served to feed the chaplain, and of those brothers, targeting the amount of the sale of surplus, expenses always accurate maintenance of the sanctuary or worship of Our Lady.
It also enabled a unit, attached to the kitchen to, in large jars half buried, keep the wine, oil and vinegar, which were collected as alms in nomination campaigns spinning the serving brothers throughout Andalusia, Extremadura and areas of Castile.
In the towers, safe from moisture, are guarded in their atrojes, grains, obtained by the same procedure and served to feed the chaplain, and of those brothers, targeting the amount of the sale of surplus, expenses always accurate maintenance of the sanctuary or worship of Our Lady.
With a significant rural population in our term, the House of the Virgin became a must for many. When the inhabitants of the many farmhouses of our fields are needed to travel to Lucena, both for shopping and to doctor visits because of very different social events: baptisms, weddings and funerals, that house was always a place of disinterested host of interim storage. Its great room floor with a huge fire was home bench while it was necessary to those who had no where to go or to rest before the return. A voluntary donation, deposited in a brush that was paved on its website, was the price of accommodation for people and animals for almost two centuries.
It also had the house with two rooms where they could stay pregnant women, and as close to delivery, they did not want to face as hard trance in the solitude of the farms. Housed there, in the safety of the proximity of a midwife and a doctor's care, if necessary, many brought their children lucentinas the world, returning to their homes in the area once felt somewhat restored.
The progress of time, with remarkable ease of movement provided by modern means of transportation and the almost complete depopulation of the countryside, eventually, transferred the twentieth century, these social services that provided the "House of the Virgin ". Reduced to a mere, albeit small (although the dimensions) and inadequate storage of household own cult of the Virgin, absolutely diminished his once large alms in kind that contributed generously rural people, its old architectural structure has deteriorated to so its fairly habitable zone was reduced to a couple of rooms, while around two large courtyards, which had been stables and barns was sinking beyond repair. In the eighties could be considered that house building useless and unrecoverable.
In mid-1987, presiding over the Confraternity of the Virgin of Araceli Lopez Francisco Salamanca, began to think of giving to it a social club itself, which join this provision, to guard with all the dignity and security, the wide range of equipment and documents aracelitana devotion of Lucena had accumulated for centuries and were scattered in homes and convents particules in our town.
The building would be located the headquarters of the massive archicofradía and future museum could be none other than the old House of the Virgin, on the street Maquedano. From the pages of the magazine "Araceli" spokesman Archconfraternity requested the cooperation of the town of Lucena whom had to donate or give way to deposit all articles or documents have preserved their devotion.
Entrusted the project to architect Roland Manuel Lucena del Valle, in the final months of this year, 1987, was completed. While the very nature of the old building, of considerable poverty in materials was not possible to retain only the white stone facade, the architect retained in the type design of the house itself and lucentinas houses, putting in small gables on the facade openings, closed with wrought iron railings, and adapting its interior layout to the needs of the Confraternity it were proposed.
In the early months of 1988 kicked off the work of demolition of the building. In October 1988, contracted the execution of the basic structures of the building, the surface should cover almost 450 square meters of the site, the ground opened up and developed the construction works so fast that by June 1989 waters had covered and made enclosures.
In December of that year, with the placement of paving, by subscription, painting and woodwork this thanks to the generosity of two fervent aracelitanos, the works were already in the process of completion. Consequently, the lowering of the image of the Virgin from her sanctuary in 1990, on the afternoon of April 22, the landlady went to his house: and on June 5 following, the bishop of the diocese, Don Jose Infants Antonio Florido the blessed in a ceremony that included the tank in the basement of a portal with a lead pipe allusive document. Attended the ceremony were the mayor, Miguel Sanchez Gonzalez, the chaplain of the Lady Don Felix Vazquez Lopez, Francisco Lopez Salamanca, elder brother of the Confraternity, with all members of the Governing Board of the same, the dean the Bar Association; architect Manuel Roldan, Fernando Angulo and rigger builder of the house.
From this time intensified the work of cataloging objects and furnishings own cult of the Virgin, abounding set of bibliographic and iconographic aracelitano, collection of large amounts of documentary material dispersed and the management of an important archive hitherto little known. Not forgetting that for the dignified presentation of many pieces, it became necessary restoration work that has allowed rescue pieces a few years before inevitably doomed to lose.
Depending on the material considered exhibition in late 1991, were covered with large format showcases all the walls on the first floor, performing the contract execution, based on red larch. The rich set of robes and skirts ancient of Our Lady, most of them at all obsolete, sample exquisite embroidery and beautiful fabrics, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, were installed in the first big room, complemented also with different canopy roofs, and many other minor pieces, and the exhibition of four large silver metal candlesticks, dating from 1864, and a beautiful set of Candeleria carved and gilded the first third of the nineteenth century.
In another room under the first floor, also were placed in large glass cases, along with other garments, and a collection of liturgical vestments of great value, characteristic of the chaplains of the Sanctuary, an excellent collection of lace, at play, flights, scarves and other items of use of the Virgin and her Child. It also explained the objects of liturgical use of the altar of Our Lady, with pieces made, almost always in the best silversmiths workshops Cordoba, between the seventeenth and current.
The other large area, for a hall, was equipped with 100 seats, and, taking advantage of its high altitude, after previous isolation and conscientious work, it hung-conservation system advised by experts in this area-four mantles rich feast of Our Patron:
The green mantle, made around 1890 in a local workshop, passed in 1975 the current embroidered velvet, the red robe embroidered with workshops Seville de Silva, 1906. 1973, passed the new Velvet was adapted to the dimensions of the new throne, the white blanket, used in the act of the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Araceli, their development, sponsored by the industrialist Don Francisco Serrano Rivera Lucena, ran by the mother Carmel, Discalced Carmelite nun in the convent of San José de Lucena. Premiered in 1930, during the procession deteriorated because of the rain, so it was necessary to pass it to another fabric. In 1980, the nuns also was passed to the current velvet, the mantle blue embroidery work of Ecija based in Lucena Antonio Sanchez Perez, whose generosity and your family is mainly due. It premiered on the day of the Virgin, 1987.
On the ground floor were added the boardroom, administrative offices, stores, and services.
To the second floor almost completely transparent, we took into account other exhibition concept, both the objects themselves that there would be shown as possible, where appropriate, utilize such an extraordinary space for other exhibits.
To the second floor almost completely transparent, we took into account other exhibition concept, both the objects themselves that there would be shown as possible, where appropriate, utilize such an extraordinary space for other exhibits.
Paneled walls, in order to ennoble them, were designed exhibiting some tables and a set of panels to be on par with windows, serve as elements of various thematic areas separaración aracelitanos. So, we created a special issue dedicated to the fact the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Araceli, which include all types of documents that were generated in its long history that event.
A second section on the history of the sample archicofradía own literary and historical documents of undoubted interest for the very history of our city, from all the rich documentary archive aracelitano.
In the Sierra de Aras, a place of natural interest of Lucena, has devoted a section in which completion is working right now. Samples of its flora, its rocks and its fossils are exposed.
Have also been exposed in a glass case, with Pastor robes of the Virgin, the last roof canopy, pink, which has been dedicated.
Have also been exposed in a glass case, with Pastor robes of the Virgin, the last roof canopy, pink, which has been dedicated.
Currently available in another room of the second and top floor is exposed the abundant signage that has generated the Holidays Aracelitanas, comprising from 1858 to present.
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