Focus, a new space for investigative reporting, has landed on Cuatro. In this first installment, the Cuatro program has analyzed Flos Mariae, the group of Catholic sisters who in 2012 promised the Virgin Mary that if her mother recovered from cancer, they would form a musical group in gratitude.
The mother assured that she spoke directly with God and the Cuatro program has accessed these supposed conversations that María transcribed. In addition, Focus has also brought to light the great division in the Bellido Durán family.
The Flos Mariae group was born in 2014, after 7 of the 16 Bellido Durán daughters promised that if their mother, María Bellido Durán, who suffered from cancer, healed, they would form a Christian pop group to promote the word of God. The mother recovered and her daughters fulfilled her promise. However, three years later she passed away, although this did not prevent her daughters from continuing with their musical project.
María Durán de Bellido assured that she spoke directly with God and Focus has accessed some writings in which María transcribes a conversation that is crucial to understanding the reality that the members of Flos Mariae live.
“Beloved, my beloved God, I love you with all my heart. I have to ask you if you want my children to go to public school, what do you want us to do?” Maria asks him. “Continue as up to now. I will show the world that without titles you can love God so much that God gives glory for his holy will,” God supposedly replies according to Maria’s transcript.
Focus confirms that Flos Mariae and his siblings were not educated through the newspaper library: “A couple from Santa Coloma had nine children without schooling and in poor conditions,” says the headline of a press publication brought to light by the program Four. The complaint had been filed by a family member.
María Durán passed away on September 23, 2015. Since then, Flos Mariae has exploited different musical registers until dissolving into two groups, 4HBD (formed by Victoria, María, Alba and Estel) and Mariah’s Pop (formed by Monste, Patricia and Flor). .
Focus has also brought to light the great division in the Bellido Durán family. The Cuatro program has located the sisters in a remote town in Castilla La-Mancha, where they live confined at home, they have no contact with their neighbors, not even with their own family. The program has spoken with their other brothers, who assure that they have no contact with them and that their only objective is to provoke a reaction in their sisters; they want their happiness and that they regain contact with society and with themselves.
