A friend of mine who was working as a postman for a few months, he once told me laughingly that in Alicante was a street called "Sheep." At first I thought I said it jokingly, but it is true, in Alicante have that street. We have been researching and have found the reason for this nice name.
If you look at the neighborhood of Alicante, we discovered that Sheep Street is located in the heart of the Barrio de la Divina Pastora. It is very difficult to establish a relationship between a counselor and a sheep right?. Let's look a little history on devotion to the Divine Shepherdess and the famous sheep:
Image of Divina Pastora
with sheep
To find the origin of the devotion to the Divine Shepherdess, we must look first in the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd who plays his life to protect his sheep from the wolf attack. Jesus Christ himself is appointing himself as the Good Shepherd , as contained in the Gospels, but is a figure which appeared in the Old Testament referring to Yahweh.
The Good Shepherd with his sheep, of course
The origins of devotion to the Virgin as Divina Pastora, female version of the Good Shepherd, is quite widespread in the centuries before the eighteenth. It seems that was the Capuchin friar Isidore of Seville which was commissioned to spread devotion to this image of the Virgin in Spain. Usually represented as follows, in the words of the Capuchin friar said:
"In the center and under the shade of a tree, the Blessed Virgin seated on a rock, his face radiating divine love and tenderness. The red robe, but covered the bust to the knees, white sheepskin around her waist. A blue coat, strapped to his left shoulder wrap the environment of your body, and to the right in the back, take the hat pastoral and appears next to the right hand the staff of his power. In the left hand hold the Child and pose the right hand on a lamb who take refuge in her lap. Some sheep surround the Virgin, forming his flock in their mouths and all paths lead roses, symbolic of the Hail Mary with the worship ... "
was Blessed Diego José de Cádiz which is responsible in the early XVIII to spread devotion to the Divine Shepherdess by Spain.
diffusers devotion to the Divine Shepherdess
(and their sheep) are in the neighborhood street
see that sheep are the common denominator of both the Good Shepherd and the Divina Pastora. If we can call geeks because sheep do not?
Ooooh, in Valencia is facing tendreeeee month
Devotion to the Divine Shepherdess puts us in Alicante D. Gonzalo Vidal Tur back in 1803. It was at this time that Fidel Ollería Capuchin who was preaching in the late Carmen temple of the Brotherhood founded in Alicante of the Divina Pastora. Among the first brothers were residents of the neighborhoods of Caramel and Santa Cruz ayudron to the popularization of the brotherhood of Alicante. This was the reason, according to Vidal Tur says on the tagline City Council Rise to Lepanto (Between Wall Street before) with the name of the Brotherhood of the Divine Shepherdess, name lost during the Civil War and recovered from it.
Returning now to the streets of the Sheep and take back the plane of Alicante, we see that almost every street in the Barrio de Divina Pastora have a common denominator: San Francisco de Assisi. It is not surprising since the neighborhood was developed by the Franciscan fathers Carcagente Angel (with Place your name ) and built between the mid 50's and late 60's by the construction Charitable San Francisco de Asis on lands owned by Mrs. Joseph Alcaraz Reverte. We and the streets above Beato Diego de Cádiz, Dr. Isidore of Seville and the Sheep on the Divina Pastora, name of the neighborhood.
As San Francisco already had street because you put
this name to the neighborhood street
But also we have in the neighborhood streets of Father Francisco (and there was a street San Francisco in Alicante), the Mount Alvernia, where he retired in 1224 San Francisco de Assisi, Gubbio Wolf Street (round the street near Sheep ...) that refers to the famous story of the pacification of a ferocious wolf in the Italian town of Gubbio by San Francisco and we talked to HERE.
Nothing approaching the Sheep
Got it, Wolf of Gubbio?
A beautiful name for a street
A name closely linked Father Angel
Carcagente
We also Living Waters Street in memory of spring and the Virgin of the same name patron Carcaixent, birthplace of Padre Angel and Capuchin Bishop Luis Amigo born Massamagrell. Rounding out the primitive neighborhood streets of the Virgin of Orito, whose convent is guarded by Capuchin and Santa Rosa.
Amigo is said was a friend of his friends
(Oooh, the acentoooo)
Amigo is said was a friend of his friends
(Oooh, the acentoooo)
And now we return to the eternal problem of Alicante: errors in street signs. Divina Pastora has examples of same street with different forms of writing both in Catalan and Castilian. Let's say Mount Alvernia Street:
plate spelled correctly '80s
plate 90s in Castilian. Oops
now has B. ..
plate spelled correctly '80s
plate 90s in Castilian. Oops
now has B. ..
plate of 90 in Valencia ....
What is a "MUNT?
What is a "MUNT?
