The Javis They released a few weeks ago The Messiahhis new series three years after The Poison. The project reached Movistar+ with great criticism from professionals and is also convincing the general public. It features a stellar choral cast led by Macarena Garcia, Ana Rujas, Roger Casamajor, Albert Pla, Lola Duenas, Grace Olayo, Carmen Machi and even the singer Amaia. But there is something attractive about the proposal, it is its terrible background plot, which combines religious, psychological and suspense elements.
The thriller tells the turbulent history of religious fanaticism of the broken family Puig Baro. It all starts with Enrique, a man who discovers a video that has just gone viral on the internet. Its protagonists are a group of young girls who call themselves the Stella Maris and they sing songs to God. These are her sisters, whom he has not seen for many years. Tormented, the man decides to delve into his own past. A childhood that was marked by her single mother, unable to care for herself or her children, Irene and his own Enrique.
Abuse, instability and the total absence of a normal life meant that little by little the yoke of the Christian religion in its darkest and sectarian side came to pass. Something that took over her mother’s mind to the point of causing her to have delusions of grandeur, locking herself in a house for many years without allowing anyone to enter or leave the place. The most surprising thing of all is that the synopsis of The Messiah has many points in common with a real story, that of the Flos Mariae.
Who are the Flos Mariae?
The Flos Mariae They are an ultra-Catholic girl band that rose to fame on the internet in 2014. They were the sisters Bellido Durán, who released an album dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Above all thanks to your song Amen, they became enormously viral and popular. His video clips mixed a very garish pop aesthetic with natural landscapes and amateur editing sequences. “Like a slice of cheese in a sandwich sandwich. You feel uneasy between doubt and fear. And you scream, I can’t. Don’t give up if you want to win. If you do, you’re going to fail,” read its lyrics. Everything seemed so surreal that it became irresistible to the public.
The band was born as a promise to the Virgin in exchange for her interceding for his mother’s health. María Durán de Bellido, and cured the cancer he suffered from. They would spread the Christian faith throughout the world to make the planet a better place with love for God. As the matriarch of the family was eventually cured, the young women kept their promise and founded the group in the purest style of the Stella Maris of The Messiah. However, what could have been a joke or a marketing strategy turned out to hide a more sinister story.
In fact, the mother of Flos Mariae he already had his channel Youtube before the group’s existence. In it he assured that he maintained a direct line of communication with God. Exactly the same as Montserrat in the series of the Javis. Among the designs of the Christian deity, María Durán de Bellido He would have received the task of educating his children outside the public system, in order to learn to love God more intensely. In total, she was the mother of 16 boys and girls (although two of them died). 13 of her descendants were with the businessman Xavier Bellido.
Investigations by the Mossos D’Esquadra revealed that at least nine of the couple’s children had not been enrolled in school. They all lived for years in Cassà de la Selva, a small town in Gerona. However, María Durán de Bellido she died in 2015, before being prosecuted. Some of her children broke away from the family and that confinement, denouncing the life to which they had been subjected. The rest continued with the wishes of her mother, the “sent of God.” Thus, the Flos Mariae They released a total of six albums of 20 songs each in just four years. A very high level of production.
Flos Mariae in the present
The group began to break up a little later when Montserrat, one of its members, dyed her hair blonde. This made her stand out above the rest of her, who wore a practically identical brunette hairstyle. In the end, Flos Mariae It split into two. On the one hand they were 4HBD (4 Bellido Durán Sisters). The remaining three, among which was Montserratthey founded Mariah’s Pop.
In 2021, the little one of the family Bellido Durán, Sunrise, decided to talk about what his life had been like. She praised the figure of her mother and claimed that they had been a model family. This provoked a response from other of her brothers, who accused her of lying through social networks. According to them, her own father secretly admitted to them that her mother suffered from some illness and that she was not really communicating with God. The problem is that she never had the courage to act and seek help. In this case the story is quite far from that of The Messiah.
By Montserratgot married with Juan Pablo Babiano and founded a dating app for Christians. “We have created the website Catholic single meetings and the Family website, domestic church to help people discern their vocation, to know what kind of person they need to be successful in marriage and to find the love of their life to form a happy family, and also to know, love and defend the Catholic faith,” it reads the description. In turn, the sisters Bellido Durán They have several projects, such as a production company, publishing house or own clothing brand, Meyerer.
The Flos Mariae respond to The Messiah
During the promotion of The Messiah, the Javis They assured that the series does not narrate the lives of the Flos Mariae. Instead, they would have been based on several different stories from people who have lived in lockdown. However, the parallels are more than evident, and the Bellido Durán They decided to respond to the creatives. And they were not happy that their story was told that way.
Mariah’s Pop issued a statement via Youtube in which they threatened the Javis with taking legal action against them. If the name of the Flos Mariae could be related to The Messiah, they would report a crime against their right to honor. At the moment, the situation has not escalated, although it is possible that this is not over yet.