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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, accompanied by the director of the Center for the Restoration of Autonomous Community, Francisco López Soldevila, today presented the restored image of the Niño de Mula to the Brotherhood of the same name, in an act held in the chapel of Balata.
The size, due to the sculptor José María Ponsoda has undergone a meticulous restoration, due to deterioration.
The play had some previous speeches, repainting worn in areas like hands, feet and neck.
The stuffs were also scattered in different parts repainted.
In addition, he showed a very strong and shiny varnish, and above it, a thin patina of dirt formed by dust and grease.
Also small cracks were visible and poorly glued pieces, as some fingers.
The amount of the performance was over 12,000 euros.
The current image is the sculptor José María Ponsoda Bravo and dates from 1940.
The original must be the work of the seventeenth century, either that, according to tradition, the Friar Pedro Botía own home saw the Duchess of Alba and it will succumb to send either the make "a good artist so expressed to place in the sanctuary.
Judging by the photographs preserved, and taking into account the data that put their shape around 1680, the original image was a Baroque sculpture of the Savior Child, similar to the very remarkable effigies of the Infant Jesus sculpture by Francisco Dionisio de Ribas Cordoba in 1644 and preserved in the church of Seville, San Juan de la Palma.
In any case, the statue was destroyed during the Civil War, and in 1940 commissioned a replica of the sculptor José María Ponsoda.
Ponsoda was born in Barcelona in 1882 and died in Valencia in 1963.
It started in the workshop of Torrás Barcelona, but at 18 he moved to Valencia, working with Pastor Damian.
Already established their own, after the Civil War made numerous orders for images reproduce or replace destroyed during the war throughout the Levant.
Niño de Mula History
Devotion to the Infant Jesus of Mula is based on the miraculous vision that enjoyed in 1648, the young pastor Pedro Botía who, afflicted by the plague which was then suffering the area and found grazing on the site of Albalat (The Balate), saw a beautiful dress to the Nazareth Children who offered her comfort and called him to follow.
Pedro Botía admitted to the Franciscan Order and years later would promote, under the protection of Don Juan de Austria, the foundation of the Royal Monastery of the Incarnation of Poor Clares in Mula.
In memory of the miraculous appearance, the origin of his vocation, he promoted the foundation of a chapel dedicated to Jesus in the hamlet of El Balate, where the miracle occurred.
Source: CARM
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