2023-10-21 22:09:54
In the small Burgos town of Masa they say that “the mystery trembles” more than usual. It’s not that something extraordinary happens every now and then. The reason is much simpler: the maneuvers of the explosives factory located near the moor keep the town on alert. They fear that these microseisms will widen the cracks in the most precious treasure—Our Lady of the Assumption, a medieval Gothic-style church—just as they are making a decades-long dream come true. While the shaking continues, half an hour away – in the center of the city of Burgos – several professionals are working on the restoration of a 17th century altarpiece that the neighbors hope to see installed, and in all its splendor, for the good weather. . In spring. It will be then that a kind of miracle occurs, especially for some of them. Like Isabel, 91 years old, who has never contemplated the true brilliance of the main altar.
A dream worked and also suffered. “It is the third time we have tried it,” emphasizes Agustín Rodríguez, member of the commission created to raise, through the crowdfunding formula and with the support of Our Spain, the 40,810 euros that allow us to carefully undertake the recovery of the main altarpiece of the temple. “On previous occasions, when we got to the budget part, the problems began,” he acknowledges, sitting on one of the benches in the side nave of the temple, next to a large neighborhood representation of Masa. “We had seen that the altarpiece was in bad shape for a long time: it had chips, it was missing paintings…”, lists Amando Herrero, another of the inhabitants of this tiny town of 27 registered people, which in reality is reduced to the four families that can survive. here all year round, including winter and its frequent snowfalls.
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