Iglesia Capitular de El Sagrario
Gothic parish church beside the cathedral, home to a wooden Christ once left deliberately unhealed.
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This guide to the Iglesia Capitular de El Sagrario in Málaga follows a carved wooden Christ that stood on its altar missing a leg and a foot for eighty-four years, after mobs burned and looted the church in the summer of 1936. It traces how the figure survived only because it hung out of easy reach, why Rome allowed the mutilated statue to keep receiving public devotion, and the brotherhood of war amputees that formed around it in 1939. It also follows the private Way of the Cross the figure kept indoors, away from Málaga's usual Holy Week streets.
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