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Monumento Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y Cuevas de la Virgen(El Real de Gandia)

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The Body of Jesus is a symbolic monument in Real de Gandía. The Jesuits of 1922 built it in Gandia, so it serves as a point of reference and applause for the Catholic movement in the region. With this religious and political gesture, they imitated the one that King Alfons XIII and the Jesuits of Madrid had made shortly before in the Cerro de los Angeles in Madrid. That point, identified by geographers as the exact center of peninsular Spain, was chosen by the king to enthrone there the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which protected the Spaniards against the Republican enmity and the revolutionary airs that arose from the communist Russia of 1917. In the old monument of the Real, blessed by Archbishop Reig y Casanova, a multitudinous regional pilgrimage is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of June, which is the most consecrated to the Heart of Jesus. The Jesuit obelisk was destroyed in 1936 and rebuilt in July 1942, and the collapse of the Body of Jesus was a much talked about incident throughout La Safor and part of La Vall d'Albaida. The believers interpreted it as a warning from heaven to the faithful of the region and the city, by the sinful proliferation of discos and bikinis in the square. The mayor of Gandia, Miquel Perez, quickly obtained a solution to take to enthroning the Lord in the place that corresponds to him. Therefore, the papal cloistered monastery of the monks of Sant Joan de Malta (1969) already exists nearby. This Christian monument is the anteroom to the caves of La Santísima Virgen Inmaculada de la Concepción, which are located a few meters from the caves of the monument.

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