This Holy Week we change the text for the video. In the previous weeks we have shared the texts of the last three Popes that will help us to meditate during the Easter Triduum. Now we share a beautiful Way of the Cross made by the web www.sercreyente.com.
Sercreyente.com is a website of spiritual accompaniment that has channels on WhatsApp, Spotify and YouTube. It has thousands of followers. On this occasion it has done a wonderful job. For the English and Italian editions, we recommend activating the corresponding subtitles.
For this Stations of the Cross he has used the artwork of one of the great Spanish painters of today, Raul Berzosa.
Raul Berzosa has made numerous paintings of different themes: portraits, the human figure, the sea, religious themes and brotherhoods... all under a realistic style in continuous evolution. Within its thematic variety there is a special relationship with the cofrade painting, the first public painting cofrade is the one that served as a poster for the Rocío de Málaga in 2000, from here he will make authentic works of art that will serve to increase the heritage of numerous brotherhoods throughout Spain, highlighting the works made for Seville, Corpus poster, the Via Crucis of the Council of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods of Seville in 2009 and poster of the Holy Week of Seville (2015), the painting of Coronación del Carmen de San Cayetano de Córdoba (2011), the poster of the Agrupación de Hermandades y Cofradías de Glorias de Málaga (2012), the poster of Mater Dei for the celebration of the Year of Faith by the Agrupación de Cofradías de Málaga (2013), of the Coronación Canónica de la Virgen del Rocío (2014), poster of the Romería del Rocío de Huelva (2016) or the poster of the Semana Santa de Málaga (2017).
Berzosa has been present in various group exhibitions since 1996, highlighting Barcelona and Manhattan (New York) or the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Nimes (France).
In 2011 he received the award Juventud Cofrade de Onda Azul, in 2012 he received the award "painter of the year 2011" granted by the Association of writers of Malaga and in 2015 he received the award Estrella Feniké de la Cultura 2015 in the painting section granted by the Cultural Association Zegrí. He is gold shield of the Malaga brotherhoods of the Cautivo, Penas and Rocio, favorite brother of the Brotherhood of the Expiration, gold shield of the Civil Hospital of Malaga and silver shield of the Association of disabled Amirax.
But there is a theme that stands out in the work of Raul Berzosa: Sacred painting, here he works normally large format canvases and mural painting. His first large format religious work is "Christ deposed from the Cross" in 2005, a work located in the Chapel of Christ of the Bridge and the Virgin of the Dove, in this chapel is also his first mural work, the semi-dome of Christ of the Bridge of Cedron (2007).
He has works in numerous churches in Spain, highlighting the works in the Sanctuary of the Valley with the decoration of the dressing room of the Virgen de las Angustias in Seville commissioned by the Duchess of Alba (2008), the Church of Santo Angel in Seville (2010), Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Sierra in Cabra (2016), his colossal work in the Oratorio de la Hermandad de las Penas (2008 - 2014), the Church of San Felipe Neri in Malaga (2012), Sanctuary of Stmo. Cristo de la Vera Cruz de Urda, Santiago Apóstol de Guadix..... Within this sacred theme we would place the palio ceiling of Our Lady of the Sun for Seville (2015).
In addition, he has works in different churches in the United States, Guatemala, Rome... And the works executed for the collection "Faces of Christ" in England.
The Holy See has very present his works, it is the case of using different paintings of Raul Berzosa for the covers of the booklets of the ceremonies in St. Peter's at the Vatican or to illustrate the stamp of the 80th birthday of Pope Francis, to announce the encyclical "Populorum Progressio" of Paul VI or the V centenary of the birth of St. Philip Neri and St. Teresa of Jesus, issued by the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican.
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