St. Michael's Basilica, Madrid

Hello, everyone.
Today we walked around and found Mass at what, for Madrid, is almost the crack of dawn: 10:30 in the morning. We were at the Basilica of St. Michael, which is also the nunciature (Vatican embassy basically) to Spain.
I took a photo of the altar a few minutes before Mass began.

The large painting shows St. Michael holding his banner as Satan falls down into the eternal trash burn. His banner has the Latin for "who is like unto God" written on it. Assorted other angels are in the area but St. Michael is the clear focus. Unseen here is a rear access passage that allowed the priest to go behind the altar and open the Tabernacle door during Mass to get out the ciborium.

The old altar, higher up and holding the Tabernacle, has 6 large candlesticks. The lower altar, which was the one used, has 6 lighter-weight candlesticks and a crucifix. I couldn't tell from my seat but this crucifix reminded me of the many old stone Camino markers that are a crucifix on one side and a figure of the Pieta or Mary praying on the other. The altar crucifix faced the priest and it looked like a figure of Mary praying might be on the part that faced the congregation.
The Tabernacle had a lace veil that just covered the front. (The actual door was on the back side.) The veil was translucent white with maybe flowers.
The altar has an altar rail, too. Using it made distributing Holy Communion go very fast, as everyone knew or instantly figured out what to do.
As we're winding down for a few days there may be fewer posts for a day or three.