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Palm Sunday procession of Trique people in Santo Domingo, Oaxaca. Holy Week in Mexico is an important religious observance as well as important vacation period. It is preceded by several observances such as Lent and Carnival, as well as an observance of a day dedicated to the Virgin of the Sorrows, as well as a Mass marking the abandonment of Jesus by the disciples.
Processions occur each day of the week and grow more solemn as Good Friday approaches. The conquistadors brought the old medieval practice of painful and bloody self-penitence to Mexico from Spain about 500 years ago. Since this concept was very similar to Aztec blood rituals, this practice was easily adopted.
Festivities: These are traditional holidays to honor religious events, such as Carnival, Holy Week, Easter, etc. or public celebrations, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, etc. Dia de la Independencia or Anniversario de la Independencia , September 16, commemorates Mexico's independence from Spain and is the most important ...
A Good Friday Procession to the "Cuevita" during Holy Week in Iztapalapa The Passion Play of Iztapalapa is an annual event during Holy Week in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City . It one of the oldest and most elaborate passion plays in Mexico as well as the best known, covered by media both in Mexico and abroad.
Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
2.8 Mexico. 2.9 Peru. 2.10 ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes ...
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