SANTÍSIMO CRISTO DEL NAUFRAGIO

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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Polychrome wood sculpture about 157 cm high created in the School of Arts and Crafts in Sarri (Barcelona), at the end of the 19th century. This image comes from the batch of works sent to Venezuela by the School of Arts and Crafts of Sarri (Barcelona), which carried the steam of the Compachat General French Transatlica Flachat, when it was shipwrecked on February 16, 1898 in the vicinity of the Lighthouse from Anaga.

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u2018 [ u2026] The torrero of the Anaga Lighthouse, Antonio L Pez-Balboa Loureiro, alerted by the constant sound of the horn of a steam, in demand for help, recounts that, on February 15, 1898, at 23:30, he approached the coast in search of survivors, and found a farmer from the Las Bodegas neighborhood who was trying to open a box of zinc that had been dragged by the waves to the coast. Inside it there were two other wooden boxes; one with an image of Christ Crucified (Christ of the Shipwreck) with dismembered arms, since it was the way to pack it; and, in the other, an Immaculate Conception, an image to be worshiped at the house of Ambrosia Mel an until 1912 when it was ceded to the church.

Tradition tells that, the goatherd, disappointed at not having found objects of material value inside the boxes, gives the extremities of the image with the regimen of his spear and, since then, lays the rest of his days .

In 1907, Don Antonio L. Pez-Balboa Loureiro commissioned the sculptor Palmero, Don Arsenio de las Casas Mart n, who assembled and ...


It is an image of polychrome wood about 157 cm high.


In the last two years, the Heritage Area of the Island Council of Tenerife and the Nivariense Diocese have promoted the recovery of an important part of the religious heritage of Taganana. Some actions that have returned the original aspect to several pieces that had been distorted by unfortunate interventions very frequent in the past. The restoration of the artistic heritage allows the progress of the scientific research, because it should not be forgotten that, apart from their original devotional character, these pieces are witnesses of a little and some facts that shaped the social and religious evolution from a town. This exhibition, together with the pieces already intervened, includes others that have not yet been restored and whose presence is justified by their importance in the historical development of the parish. Within the framework of these actions, the Ccucu Conservation and Restoration team led by the restorer Mar a Fernanda Guiti n Garre, has intervened the images of Jesus s Nazarene, Our Lady of Sorrows and the carvings of the Deceased Christ, Saint Luc a and San Francisco de As s. Also, under his direction in the Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property Heritage of the University of La Laguna, the Christ of the Shipwreck has been restored. At the same time, in April 2015, the work of repositioning the wooden roofs of the church of Our Lady of the Snows began under the direction of the architect Sebasti n Mat as Delgado Campos. A very necessary intervention given the accused state of deterioration qu ...


MUNICIPALITY Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Anaga District AREA

ADDRESS N Plaza Nieves, 4 (Taganana)


It is declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), since the Parish of Our Lady of Las Nieves de Taganana and the movable property linked to it are classified as Monument (Decree 130/2006, of September 26).


- NEGR N DELGADO, C. (1995). u2018 The custodians of the parish church of Nuestra Sera de las Nieves de Taganana (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) u2019, Yearbook of the Institute of Canary Studies. Tenerife

- MART N HERN NDEZ, U. (2007). u2018General History of the Anaga Region u2019, Idea Editions, Tenerife.


Editorial and research team: Architecture Unit of the CICOP Foundation.
Miguel ngel Fern ndez Matr n.

Jos Luis D will read Mart nez.

Sendy Hern ndez lvarez.

Photograph: Jos M. Bossini Ruiz.


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