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Films producer like ‘The minimum island’ o ‘Group 7’, Gervasio Iglesiascurrent deputy director of the film area of TVEhe said he eluded to take Sor Ángela de la CruzSanta Ángela, to the screen after the Cross sisters told her that they did not conceive that an actress made her, so she then chose to write the novel ‘Angela’ (the walk).

Gervasio Iglesias, who was born and lives in a house very close to the convent that is the headquarters of the Sisters of the Cross in the historic center of Seville, has told Efe that Sor Angela, in one way or another, was always a character that was close to him, but when he began to investigate his life and his facts it was when he was fascinated by her: “I am Atheist those that make humanity good. “

The action of his novel starts in March 1932, the day of the death of the saint, who was born in 1875, and the protagonist is a socialist councilor, a doctor by profession and anticlerical passionate who, however, the day of the death of the nun called to honor her for “embodying exceptional human values” that he never said, he had found in any other person.

It was to meet that call in the press of the time when Iglesias began to investigate in the newspaper library about the life of Sister Ángela and initially conceived a television series, contacted a platform that accepted the idea and, subsequently, met with the superior of the sisters of the cross to present the idea.

Assembly of nuns

The nuns gathered, valued the idea of ​​the producer and his views about Sor Ángela, as well as their eagerness to publicize this historical figure that Iglesias still considers very unknown, but they told him that they did not see “the mother” interpreted by any actress.

Iglesias, far from feeling disappointed, comments with humor that the nuns were right, because, “if you think about the figure of Santa Teresa, everyone comes to the face of Concha Velasco and, of course, who was going to be Sor Angela?”

From the contrast of Angela with its protagonist, the Republican Councilor, explained that he was retaliated after the civil war and one of those who accompanied Blas Infante as a speaker in the statute of autonomy for Andalusia and that he was a man who said that “when he saw a Nazarene through the streets of Seville he was embarrassed of the human race and, nevertheless, he recognizes in a person as integrated in the Catholic Church human “.

Iglesias has detailed Sor Angela’s personality for “his deep religiosity, he was fascinated by Christ, in his writings rather than God speaks of Christ, of that Christ of the cross who humbles himself and sacrifices himself for others; she had a dream at the twelve years in which he sees Christ crucified and an empty cross next to him, and understood that this was his place.”

Get poor to help the poor

“She believed that everything had to be given for others and, from a young age, with six years, she was deprived of eating to give it to the most needy; in Seville at that time there were bags of real misery, of people who did not have to eat, in addition to the continuous overflows of the river and the epidemics; it was a city that had the court of the montpensier and people who went to the field of the field in the field miserable. “

“With his idea that to help the poor, he had to become poor, he changed the concept of Christian charity to pass it to solidarity; and with that he changed the course of history,” Churches considered.

On the parallelism between Angela and the Republican councilor, Iglesias has concluded: “The story of Angela, what it tells is that what prevails, the important thing in the end, is the humanity of people, beyond beliefs and ideology; and we are seeing it again at a time when everything is polarized again and it seems that if someone does not think how you are already your enemy.”

“It is the same that also happened to the Infanta María Luisa, who in the end became very friends and she, who was fifteen more than Angela and died before, asked to be amounted with the habit of the sisters of the cross, of the sisters of the poor.”