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Holy Week in Spain is the annual tribute of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods (Spanish: confradías) and confraternities that perform penitential processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city and town during Holy Week–the final week of Lent before Easter.
During Holy Week, 42 brotherhoods (cofradía) make 45 processions through the streets of Málaga showing realistic wooden sculptures that depict scenes from the Passion, or images of the Virgin Mary showing sorrow. Holy Week in Málaga was declared in 1965 to be a Fiesta of International Tourist Interest of Spain. [1]
In the 20th century the forms of Holy Week were revived. In the anticlerical period of the Second Spanish Republic , churches, images and goods were destroyed on July 18, 1936, and thereabouts. There were changes in the period immediately following the II Vatican Council , which coincided with the social changes in Spain around the death of ...
The week leading up to Easter is an incredibly important one for the religious in Spain . Semana Santa commemorates the last week of Jesus Christ's life. Inside Spain's haunting Holy Week celebrations
In Spain, women still wear mantillas during Holy Week (the week leading to Easter), bullfights and weddings. Also a black mantilla is traditionally worn when a woman has an audience with the Pope and a white mantilla is appropriate for a church wedding, but can be worn at other ceremony occasions as well.
Mary Most Holy of Hope Macarena (Spanish: María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena), popularly known as the Virgin of Macarena or simply La Macarena, is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a pious 17th century wooden image of the Blessed Virgin venerated in the Basilica de María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena in Sevilla, Spain.
Some much needed rain was not going to ruin Holy Week for Alfonso del Río Martínez and his fellow Christians in the southern Spanish village of Quesada. The rains during Holy Week were a ...
The Holy Week in Valladolid is one of the main tourist attractions, and cultural and religious events of Valladolid and the surrounding province during Holy Week in Spain. It boasts of renowned polychrome sculptures , created mainly by sculptors such as Juan de Juni and Gregorio Fernández , [ 1 ] who were active when the city served as the ...