His smile and friendly manner did not go unnoticed, and it is logical that he left his mark wherever he went. The brotherhood of Penas will celebrate a mass for the eternal rest of the priest Emilio Pavonwho was the parish priest of Santiago and counselor of this … brotherhood between 1994 and 2013, and La Soledad.
Don Emilio He died on April 14 in Córdoba at the age of 88, and he lived his last Palm Sunday knowing that there would be no more Holy Weeks, so the penitence season of Palm Sunday in the Cathedral had an unrepeatable flavor.
The photograph he captured has been very moving. Valentin Moyano that afternoon of uncertain weather, and even more so afterwards, when it was learned of the religious man’s death. Everything acquired greater meaning and depth.
The brother and bearer Rafael Santiago He offered that day to go to the Priest’s House, pick up Don Emilio and take him in a wheelchair. And they do it like that. “The Christ of Sorrows wanted to say goodbye to him,” summarizes Rafael Francisco Moreno, elder brother of Las Penas.
Las Penas de Santiago was one of the few brotherhoods that was able to take to the streets in 2024 during Holy Week. Its governing board took advantage of the fact that the sky gave a respite from the rain until nine at night to decide to go to the main temple, even if the return itinerary had to be shortened.
«Maybe for details like those it was worth it “the risk of going out in unstable weather,” recalls Moreno, asked about how Don Emilio lived that day.
Rafael Francisco Moreno treated him since he was a child and brings to mind that Santiago had reopened in 1991 and the brotherhood was going through a difficult time in the early 90s. Don Emilio arrived to calm the spirits and he ended up achieving it.
He was the counselor who had been there the longest, “he opened the parish to the neighborhood, he returned to give life to Santiago, both to the parishioners and to the two brotherhoods that we were in at that time,” he summarizes.
“He was very closely, very Marian. Since he retired, Don Emilio joined the Cathedral to be close to them in their stations of penance. And also in 2023, when he was able to go on his own, even with difficulty.
Rafael Moreno, who was Penas’ older brother for nine years, between 1997 and 2006, treated him a lot, and had many experiences: “Sometimes positive, other times more negative, like illnesses, like life.”
He adds that Don Emilio called Cristo de las Penas “the oldest resident of the Santiago neighborhood and from the first hour he had a lot of devotion to him.”
Highlight of that time they shared “their good mood, his good right hand. He had that point of grace of the Sevillians. They also tuned in because they were both from Betis.
Mass
the mass for his eternal rest, on Friday, May 10 in the parish of Santiago, coincides with the first day of the triduum in honor of Our Lady and Mother of the Forsaken (8:30 p.m.).
Also the brotherhood of La Soledad, which had its headquarters in Santiago until 2020, dedicated affectionate words on social networks to its parish priest and counselor at that stage.
«Don Emilio had a close relationship with our brotherhood being loved and remembered by the brothers of La Soledad. We raise our prayers to the Lord and to our Mother, Mary Most Holy in her Solitude, for her eternal rest,” the Franciscan corporation lamented at the time.
In Las Penas, the “indelible mark that he leaves in our brotherhood and in the neighborhood of Santiago” was highlighted. In the hearts of all of us who had the lucky to live together “With him, we will remember his words and his strong devotion to the Holy Christ of Sorrows.”
The funeral was held on April 15 in the parish of Sanctuary of the Holy Cathedral Church of Córdoba. Emilio Pavón, a native of Los Palacios and Villafranca (Seville), received his priestly ordination in the church of La Encarnación in Montilla in 1961.
Since then he worked in numerous municipalities of Córdoba. In 1976 he was appointed parish priest of Santa María de las Flores in Inns and until 1992 he dedicated his pastoral ministry to serving the faithful of this municipality, where he was also religion teacher.
He was in the parish of Santa Teresa de Córdoba. During all those years and even in retirement, he continued to serve in Córdoba, according to the Diocese of Córdoba in his biographical profile.
As traits of his personality he highlights generosity and devotion to Marian devotions such as Our Lady of the Kings, the Virgin of Rocío and that of Fátima.
