I was passing 1978 when in my exhibition of the Economic Society Friends of the Country, I met a cousin who came to visit it and, after a some time of chat, it told me that the Brotherhood of the Rescue was considering to change two paintings that were appearing in its banners, work of Martinez Virez, since it had been changed the images of its holders recently into new sizes realized by Castillo Lastrucci and, therefore, same them they had to move to the banner.

For ages I have been a lover of the Holy Week, therefore the idea of realizing some work for an of Malaga brotherhood was always in my thought. Therefore, I saw a perfect opportunity to obtain my sleep.

I got in touch with the one that at that time was the older brother of the brotherhood, Jose Luis Gea, who said to me that they had many hanging projects, but the economic situation was forcing to postpone them. So many people were my illusion and my devotion for Christ, of whose brotherhood I am a brother from child, that I proposed to him to put my art at the disposal of the Brotherhood of a completely altruistic way.

I took my trestle, went away to the street chapel Water, which borders on the Street of Victoria, and as in that epoch it did not have photos camera and my teachers taught me to do of the native, I me started working, forgot the size and thought that the image that I had ahead was a model, and thus I humanized it, gave him life.

I took approximately two week in painting Our Father Jesús del Rescate helped constantly by the spring light that was entering the chapel. During this time I met many persons who were happening for the secret and were interested by what it was doing, since it was not habitual to see a person there doing of the native. One of them, every day was stopping, and was remaining there a little bit meeting to do, do not name it was Juan Antonio Sanchez Lopez, who nowadays is a teacher of Art history of the University of Malaga and a big friend of mine.

When I did delivery of the linen there was such the happiness and emotion that it untied between the brothers who, spent one year, entrusted me that it realized the banner of the Virgin of Grace. After these banners many others came in Malaga and its province.

In the magnificent magazine “Nazarene”, today eliminated, being its director my big friend and journalist Antonio Roche, one was speaking about the paintings of my banners, and this way I was gaining myself a name in the world brother of the city and the province, until finally in 2008 they entrusted me to paint the official cartel of the Holy Week of Malaga, which has been other of my sleep obtained.

Leonardo Fernández González