Since then, the Immaculate Conception became the protector of the Spanish Tercios and in 1892 she was officially declared Patroness of the Spanish Infantry, a patronage that she had already held de facto for centuries. back. In addition, the Immaculate Conception holds other patronages in the Spanish Army, over the Spanish military chaplains, the Army General Staff, the Military Legal Corps, the Military Pharmacy, the Military Veterinary Corps, the Geographic Service of the Army and Military Offices.

Since 2004, the Spanish Army has had the custom of paying tribute to its patron saint in that Dutch town where the miracle occurred. These are soldiers stationed at the Allied Joint Force Command in Brunssum (HQ JFC Brunssum), based in the Netherlands. This year's tribute took place last Saturday, December 2, in which the Spanish soldiers were accompanied by Spanish and Dutch civilians, belonging to the Association Friends of the Spanish Way of the Tercios, the Retógenes Association of Friends of Military History, the Parish of Saint Landelino (with its parish priest Piet de Jong at the helm) and the Stichting Kapel Oud-Empel, a Dutch association that has assumed the maintenance of this chapel.

Today, the 31 Enero Tercios Association has published the videos of this beautiful tribute, recorded by Enrique Sanmartin. You can see them below. In the first of them, the Infantry Commander of the Spanish Army Javier Pontijas presented the event on the banks of the Meuse River, held in the place where the miracle of Empel occurred:

In the second video we can see Lieutenant General Luis Lanchares Dávila, second chief of HQ JFC Brunssum, addressing a few words to those attending the event, after which Lieutenant Colonel Juan Alberto Rios Pérez, 1st Sergeant Gorka Aparicio Sánchez and Javier Ochoa Sánchez read the facts of the Empel miracle, based on the story prepared by Alberto Vidal Guerrero: