{"id":30601,"date":"2017-08-14T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=30601"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T05:47:09","slug":"the-kneeling-young-man-rodrigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/the-kneeling-young-man-rodrigo\/","title":{"rendered":"The kneeling young man: RODRIGO"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rodrigo.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

Numerous pilgrims and even some devotees or even parishioners have a question in their mind, who is the young man kneeling beneath the image of Our Lady of Aranzazu? It is quite noticeable the man wearing a long sleeve, with a sling bag, in a kneeling position with his flock behind him whenever we see the image of Our Lady of Aranzazu on her main retablo<\/em> or wherever she is.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/RORDIGO-PIC.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|”]\n

An 1895 sketch of Rodrigo from the book\/album \u201cSantuarios Guipuzcoanos\u201d by Angel Pirala<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

His name is Rodrigo de Balzategui. He is the young man behind the word \u201cAranzazu\u201d. He exclaimed Arantzan zu?!<\/em> A Basque word which means \u201cThou, among the thorns?\u201d<\/em> that gave rise to the name \u201cAranzazu\u201d when he discovered the image of the Virgin in the thorn bush, in the mountain of Alo\u00f1a in O\u00f1ate, Spain on June 11, 1469 whereas the northern part of Spain at that time was experiencing severe drought. Rodrigo is a shepherd residing in Uribarri, the second district of the City of Bilbao (Biscay) in Spanish Basque country. Some historical accounts described him as a \u201cyoung\u201d shepherd.<\/p>\n

At this time, the existence of Rodrigo\u2019s image is important to the entire iconography of Our Lady of Aranzazu because it depicts the apparition scene in 1469. However, there is only limited information available about Rodrigo\u2019s identity that can only be found in some history books regarding the Virgin of Aranzazu. Perhaps because Rodrigo is not well-known like the other visionaries of the Virgin Mary such as Saints Bernadette Soubirous, Juan Diego, Catherine Laboure, and along with others.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, we must recognize Rodrigo for being the instrument to proclaim God\u2019s mercy and the love of our dearest mother, Our Lady of Aranzazu to all her children. Exposing Rodrigo\u2019s image will help to preserve his legacy and the reminiscence of the 1469 apparition that is the most significant part of the history of the beginning of our devotion. Rodrigo is not just only part of the history books, but he is an existing witness that will remind us by looking at the image of Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Aranzazu with the kneeling young man: Rodrigo. (Christian Robles)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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His name is Rodrigo de Balzategui. He is the young man behind the word \u201cAranzazu\u201d. He exclaimed Arantzan zu?! A Basque word which means \u201cThou, among the thorns?\u201d that gave rise to the name \u201cAranzazu\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":30602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aranzazu-news","category-catholic-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-7Xz","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Rodrigo.jpg?fit=800%2C437&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31816,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601\/revisions\/31816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}