{"id":9159,"date":"2021-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/the-macolla-of-the-processional-cross-of-santiago-millas-piece-of-the-month-of-june\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:01:09","slug":"the-macolla-of-the-processional-cross-of-santiago-millas-piece-of-the-month-of-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/the-macolla-of-the-processional-cross-of-santiago-millas-piece-of-the-month-of-june\/","title":{"rendered":"The macolla of the processional cross of Santiago Millas, piece of the month of June."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago is the patron saint of several localities along the Jacobean Way and the Diocese of Astorga, as is the case with the Maragata locality of Santiago Millas.  <!--more-->This is the origin of the piece that the Gaud\u00ed Palace presents this June to coincide with the Jacobean Holy Year. It is the macolla of the processional cross of Santiago Millas, a work dating from 1991, although the cross is earlier and is dated in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 the original macolla of the cross was stolen from the town of Santiago Millas, so they asked jeweler Jos\u00e9 Manuel Santos to create a new one for their processional cross. The macolla is the set of ornamental character composed of stems, flowers and leaves that are born from the foot of the processional cross, normally it is a closed element, which makes this piece of Santiago Millas special. &#8220;The macolla of the cross is openwork, it is like a temple, a basilica supported by Doric and Ionic columns that inside houses an image of Santiago pilgrim, patron saint of the town,&#8221; says its maker. The upper part of the set was made to match the base of the processional cross, despite having a different macolla than the rest of the crosses that can also be seen in the Museum of the Ways of the Palace of Gaud\u00ed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6137\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Pieza-del-mes-de-junio-Macolla-de-la-cruz-procesional-de-Santiago-Millas-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Post processional cross image of Santiago Millas Gaud\u00ed Palace\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" title=\"Palacio de Gaudi\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Processional cross of Santiago Millas. \/ Gaud\u00ed Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Curiously, the macolla that Santos restored in 1991 was not the original piece, as it had also been stolen previously and was a set made by the silversmith Ramos, a saga of renowned silversmiths from Astorga. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure if the work had been done by the last of the saga, Ernesto Ramos Rebollo, or it was his father or someone before them,&#8221; Santos recalls. The work for the recovery of the macolla began in October 1990 and was presented during the feast of St. James, on July 25, 1991. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Santos himself was in charge of carrying the Maragata cross in procession.<\/p>\n<p>The macolla is worked on silver and weighs just over 4 kilos, &#8220;you can see that it is a work of youth and not of maturity because I made it different from everything that existed, now maybe I look more at the macollas that exist,&#8221; says the jeweler laughingly. Today it is still part of the religious life of the Maragata locality that every year, on the occasion of the feast of St. James, takes to the streets to walk through the town in procession.<\/p>\n<p>This and more pieces can be visited at the monument and the Museum of the Roads from July 1 every day, except Monday and Tuesday mornings, from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago is the patron saint of several localities along the Jacobean Way and the Diocese of Astorga, as is the case with the Maragata locality of Santiago Millas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[176,177,216,208],"class_list":["post-9159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-museum-of-the-roads","tag-piece-of-the-month","tag-santiago","tag-the-road-to-santiago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}