The day the plot of The Messiah was reported, lovers of the most trashy pop culture assumed that it was inspired by the Flos Mariae, the Christian band made up of seven sisters (out of a total of sixteen brothers) whose Catholic hymns spread like wildfire. by social networks. They had similarities: María, the mother of the Bellido Durán family, claimed to speak with God directly. But, after the premiere of the series by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi on Movistar Plus, three of these sisters wanted to deny the facts that appear in the fiction.
“Montserrat, Patricia and Flor, we want to tell you that we have never suffered any type of abuse, and we have always had the level of education and knowledge appropriate to each age. Of the sixteen siblings, Montserrat is the fourth, born in 1986, Patricia is the seventh, born in 1989, and Flor is the thirteenth, born in 1996,” they have published from the Mariah's Pop website, after splitting off from the rest. of his sisters to create his own band.
If The Messiah is about toxic motherhood and the problematic childhood of some sisters who live locked up in a farmhouse and are prohibited from contact with the outside world, they defend having had a childhood “so happy that many have envied us throughout our lives.” ”. According to them, they also had a fantastic educational level thanks to the “Homeschooling” method (that is, being educated at home). They even quote a professor of Ecclesiastical Law who states that at Harvard “children who have been educated at home are raffled off.”
They highlight that in 1996 Montserrat and Patricia were enrolled in a private school of the Opus Dei Work and that they got such good grades that the former was advised to study Catalan philology in order to become a teacher at the center in the future. She, however, preferred to study Fashion Design. Flor, on the other hand, studied at the same charter school although she later enrolled at the American school Clonlara School to study remotely. And, finally, Montserrat studied Law. All three have created their own companies (fashion, animation and coaching, respectively).
“If you liked the song of Amen, it is because in it Montserrat captured what it is like to live when people lie about you and slander you, even though they appear to be good as bread,” they argue, and “that is why, after new slander and defamation, she composed the new song “Like a slice of cheese.”
The Flos Mariae created the group in 2014 when, while their mother was sick, they promised to create a Christian pop group to promote the word of God if she was cured. By improving their health, they fulfilled their promise. Three years later, however, she passed away.
“There are those who have lied saying that we are part of a sect, which is false. “We have always been practicing Catholics, although we have never belonged to any group or movement of the Church,” he alleges. They also claim to have friendships and not live apart from society: “Nothing could be further from the truth, precisely in the program that Focus (on the Cuatro network) published, it coincided that the journalists filmed Montserrat and Flor at the moment in which they "They were driving to the cinema because they were meeting some friends, but we don't have to tell our private lives."
“Although we are known on the internet and social networks, we do not aspire to fame, but to make the love of God known and do the best with our lives. There has never been any type of abuse, we have simply been educated in a more evolved and advanced way than the usual system in Spain and that is why they like our songs and our charisma, because we are genuine and with our own goals that we carry out without any problem, thank you to the happy childhood that we have lived and that many have envied and will envy,” they report.
What they are asking, basically, is that Flos Mariae and the Bellido Durán sisters stop being associated with the family played by Macarena García, Roger Casamajor, Ana Rujas, Carmen Machi, Lola Dueñas, Irene Balmes, Biel Rossell and Albert Pla among others. : “Montserrat, Patricia and Flor ask all the media to stop linking Flos Mariae with the series The Messiah, and to give publicity to the lies and defamations that are made about our life, mother and ourselves.”
But above all they want to defend the honor of their late mother, whom they consider an inspiration: “That is why we made the promise to the Virgin Mary, to Jesus, to God, and we continue to fulfill it. Long live our mother! Long live María Durán! Friend, thank you, always move forward with faith. Up and towards Heaven!”
