Image of Argentina’s patron Saint ready for final resting in Falklands
An image of Argentina’s patron saint, Our Lady of Lujan, which during the last five years was taken in peregrination all over the country, will be blessed this coming weekend at her sanctuary in Buenos Aires before been flown to be enshrined at the Darwin Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands, according to reports in the Argentine media.
The image will be carried by the second group of Malvinas Families on Saturday October 10. This weekend the image will be part of the annual young people’s peregrination to the Basilica of Lujan when the blessing and dedication ceremony is scheduled.
This coming Saturday and the following, a total of almost 400 Argentine next of kin of combatants killed during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict between Argentina and Great Britain will be officially inaugurating the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in the Falklands.
The Memorial, in the shape to two extended embracing arms holding engraved plaques with only the names of all Argentine combatants killed, no ranks or units identified, was built in blocks in Argentina and later assembled in the Falklands.
The remaining piece that completes the Memorial is the image of Our Lady of Lujan for which a hermite is waiting for her integration in perpetuity.
“This is the image of Our Lady of Lujan, patron saint of Argentina, the last piece of the Memorial to the fallen built in our Islas Malvinas, which farewells from its children in the continent before leaving for its final destiny from where it will care over the eternal rest of our brothers: those who have already given the good fight for national independence and sovereignty”, reads the inscription as the foot of the image.
In the week between the two flights to the Falklands the image will be exhibited at the foot of Buenos Aires city obelisk in the framework of an itinerant exhibition “Malvinas: Islands of the Memory”.
According to the Malvinas Families organization the image is 1.53 meters high, weighs 60 kilos and has toured, since 2005, over 63.000 kilometres in Argentina, from the north to the extreme south: in the Quiaca next to Bolivia, to the Marambio Base in Antarctica.
Two weeks ago the image presided over the XIIth Social Pastoral Deliberations of the Buenos Aires archdioceses in the district of Liniers where “it was revered by political, social and religious referents”.
“The blood of the dead is Christian seeding. Let us hope that blood shed by so many brothers opens the way to build a better Nation” said Carlos Accaputo Director of the Pastoral.
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Erh - dream on. You will be a guest in anothers country not your own.
The official name is not Falkland-Malvinas Islands. This is simply a UN internal protocol by which the Islands are referred to in their official documents. The UN has no authority to rename any country, that is entirely a matter for the country's inhabitiants . The official name of the Islands is Falkland Islands as it is known by its own people.
Nor are they simultaneously owned by two different countries. They are owned by their own inhabitants. The UN does not rule on such matters to the best of my knowledge. It has simply asked the two disputing member states to resolve their differences regarding sovereignty and find a peaceful solution. Argentina's claim is therefore not recognised or supported by the UN at all. The UK for its part as the recognised administering country has devolved the decision regarding sovereignty to the inhabitants of the Falklands and leaves the final decision to them and is prepared to support whatever final decision they come to.
The Islanders make no running nor exacerbate the situation regarding the Argentine claim in any way, which is both agressive and predatory with no thought to any peaceful decision other than a surrender of sovereignty to Argentina.
Without Argentina pushing its claim peace and friendship would reign as you would seem to desire.
You Argentines really have to get over the fact that the Falkland Islanders are the people who make the decisions. Their future is not Argentina's business.
Cheers.
Patience and diplomacy? But refuse to speak to the islanders. You don't seem to realise that just because people mouth sympathetic platitudes because they want a trade deal, it doesn't translate into support.
Other countries and Chile have in recent years often asked to fly extra to here- but it is you who refuse to allow the overfly on mainland territory,not that they do not want to come.
We know the reality of international relations- countries side with each other at times for trade and other reasons, but when the chips are down and international principles are at stake then more serious decisions are made as to who you back or stay out of.
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