The Legend of the Virgin of Sorrows

It tells an old legend, that in the old Way of Cartagena, today highway of Arneva, at a distance of 1 km before arriving at Orihuela, was a farmer plowing the earth 21 of October of 1648 when it struck with its tool an object Solid that caught his attention.
He began to dig with great interest believing himself graced by an immense treasure to see that it was a chest.
When he managed to get it out of its place, he opened it carefully and looked with resentment at first, but joy after the chest hid the image of a virgin carved in wood and carrying in his arms a small creature that showed no signs of life on His lap
The image was transferred to the convent of San Sebastián where it would be worshiped until 1731.
It occurred that people were eagerly asking for the image to return to its place of origin, the place where it had been found initially. And so it was, moved to the edge of the road of Cartagena where a hermitage was built.
Since then, a pilgrimage began to take place back and forth from the chapel to the Church of Santa Justa and Rufina. During the month of September to celebrate the novena that coincides with the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin.
In 1926, this traditional pilgrimage was stopped to build in the place of the hermitage, one of greater capacity that could house more parishioners and be able to officiate mass.
From that year, the annual procession was celebrated by the roads and sidewalks that border the hermitage.
Unfortunately, in the Civil War, the original image was lost forever.
After the war, the echo of the tradition called to the doors of the families Illescas and Seva, of the way of Cartagena that defrayed the expenses to construct another Virgin of the Angustias with which to continue celebrating the cult.
We had to arrive at the year 2012 so that the traditional pilgrimage that transfers the image between the old hermitage and the Church of Santa Justa and Rufina can be completely recovered. And another procession of return the Night of Sorrow