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| President López Miras highlights that "the Patron Saint returns home, with her family, although she never really left at all, it has always been in the heart of Cartagena "| The restoration of the carving has lasted for seven months and has consisted of a deep cleaning process, chromatic touch-ups and restoration of the tears on the Virgin's face.The head of the regional Executive, Fernando López Miras, today delivered to the Holy and Royal Hospital of Charity the image of the Virgin of Charity, Patroness of Cartagena, who has undergone a thorough process of analysis and recovery at the Regional Center of Restoration of the Autonomous Community "after verifying that it was very deteriorated both outside and inside.""The Virgin of Charity returns home with her family, although she never really left at all," said López Miras, who emphasized that "she has always been in the heart of Cartagena and has never stopped caring for them, especially all in these difficult pandemic months.

" In this sense, he explained that for the first time in his 297 years, the Virgen de la Caridad could not be in Cartagena on Friday of Dolores, because the health crisis forced the planned transfer to be paralyzed despite the restoration of the size.The restoration of the image of the Patron Saint of Cartagena has lasted for seven months in which the carving has been subjected to a complete study to determine its state of conservation, and it can be verified that the image presented a poor state, aggravated by an old attack of xylophagous insects that did a lot of damage due to its extension and aggressiveness, affecting not only the interior of the sculpture, but also its exterior, given the multiple lack of support it caused and the large number of holes it left on the surface of the sculpture.

work.The current restoration has focused on cleaning the generalized dirt that the work presented, as well as chromatically retouching each and every area that needed it, given that the chromatic reintegration applied in the last restoration had undergone notable alterations .

Also, the tears were removed from the Virgin's face, cleaning them and putting them back in their place.

It is a delicate process that has been complicated by the volume of the work and the difficulty of access presented by some points of the image.López Miras stressed that "during all this time, the image of the Virgen de la Caridad has been in the best hands", referring to the technicians, professionals and specialists of the Restoration Center of the Region of Murcia.

In this sense, he explained that "throughout the process, safety criteria have always been prioritized to the times" and recognized "the immense effort made by all professionals to ensure that the rehabilitation is completed before Friday of Dolores"."To the immense artistic and patrimonial value of this carving is added the devotional load that it has for all the people of Cartagena, hence the care and care with which it has been treated," said the President of the Community, who congratulated all the people of Cartagena.

for already having its patron saint in its Basilica and thanked the Hospital de Caridad for its great social work.

Source: CARM