There
seems to be no relationship between this Brotherhood and the Brotherhood of
Sorrows, which in the middle of the 18th century was erected in the Convent of
San Joaquín and which became extinct as a result of the confiscation carried
out at the beginning of the 19th century.
It
will possibly be at the end of the 19th century, coinciding with the fact that
La Soledad will stop carrying out processes in the Holy Thursday Procession
-General- and in the Good Friday morning procession -Penitent-. and under the
auspices of his own Camarería when an Image of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows
existing in the Convent of Santa Clara began to be processed during Holy Week,
commissioned by Fray Manuel Guardiola y Rueda to the circle of Salzillo around
1760, but attributed to Roque López (according to the Count of Roche's
catalogue, in 1784 a new “Dolorosa” would have been commissioned for this
convent from Roque López to replace another one, the work of Salzillo, which
has disappeared).
Said
Image will parade from then on in the General Procession on Holy Thursday and
in the Procession of the Penitent on Good Friday morning, instead of the Paso
de María Santísima de la Soledad that would have been doing it until then both
days. Also, at the end of the s. XIX and in successive years he will also
participate in the "Traída de los Santos" from the Hermitage of the
Santísimo Cristo del Consuelo, in which the original throne was preserved, with
Elizabethan knobs and glass bombs for wax, which Alfonso will renovate in 1892
Pérez Martínez, carver and gilder from Murcia, at the behest of Mrs. Luisa de
Castro. Throne and Image will be burned at the beginning of the Civil War.
In
1940, the Murcian sculptor Juan González Moreno made a new Image, a faithful
reproduction of that of Salzillo, which is kept in the Convent of Santa Clara,
in a chapel whose altarpiece and dressing room were made by the sculptor Manuel
Juan Carrillo Marco from Ciez, commissioned by Doña Dolores Marín-Blázquez, and
which was restored in 1997 by Javier Bernal Casanova. The Image will parade
provisionally on the throne of María Santísima de la Soledad, until in 1953 the
Murcian goldsmith Vicente Segura makes, at the request of the then President of
the Brotherhood, D. Francisco Guardiola Torres, which is its current one, a
goldsmith's throne which was completed in 1995 with a new set of finery and in
the year 2000 with two small Angels, carved in wood and polychrome by the
sculptor José Montesinos based in Seville from Ciez, who are placed at the foot
of the Image, and which was restored in 2005 by the Ciezano goldsmith Diego
Penalva. To participate with the new Step in the Processions, a group of young
people belonging to the "Intupo" rock founded that same year of 1945
the Brotherhood of the Blessed Virgin of Sorrows.
During
the 19th and 20th centuries, its Waitresses have successively enriched the
trousseau of the successive Images; thus, Ms. Matilde Bray Azcoitia de
Marín-Blázquez gave the Virgin a silver halo in 1850 that is still preserved
today, made by the Murcian silversmith Agustín Jiménez Andreu in 1833, and in
1893 Ms. Luisa Fernández de Castro y Martínez Illescas a silver crown of twelve
stars together with a red suit and a blue Genoese velvet cloak (1893) that the
current Image also wears. Finally, Mrs. Luisa Marín Marín-Blázquez paid for him
a maroon suit with brocades.
In
the years that followed its foundation, the Brotherhood incorporated into its
entourage the electric light staffs, made in the Workshops of Maestro Penalva
commissioned by D. Fulgencio Serra Peña, its president at the time.
In
1997, under the Presidency of D. Joaquín Lucas Verdejo, the Brotherhood
completely renewed its clothing for anderos and Nazarenes, recovering the
traditional "executioner" hat and the tunic adorned with trimmings,
and a few years later, in 2006, renewed the cinctures again. And in 1999 it is
the Ciezano goldsmith Diego Penalva who makes the lanterns for the Tercio de
Nazarenes and that same year the script is also made.
The
first banner of the Brotherhood was replaced in 1982, when D. Manuel E.
Semitiel was president, by another made in the Convent of Santa Clara de Cieza
in 1982; and this in turn for the current one, embroidered in gold thread on
maroon velvet in the Talleres la Egipcia de Lorca in 2002 under the presidency
of D. Carlos Lucas Morcillo.
Since
1998, the Brotherhood, then chaired by Mr. José Antonio Moreno Ríos, has been
carrying out the transfer of its owner from the Convent of San Joaquín and San
Pascual to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption on the night of Friday of
Dolores, in the one that had occasionally paraded previously in the Via Crucis.
Since
2008, the Brotherhood has had a children's Step, La Dolorosa, a dress image by
local sculptor Antonio Jesús Yuste Navarro, with which the children's Tercio
parades in the Children's Thirds Procession on Holy Saturday afternoon.