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Iglesia de La Merced, Iglesia de Santa Ana, Iglesia Escuela de Cristo, Iglesia de San Felipe de Jesús: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Palm Sunday Jesús Nazareno de la Reseña: La Merced: 11:00 am – 11:00 pm Holy Monday Jesús Nazareno: Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano: N/A Holy Tuesday Jesús Nazareno del Silencio: El Calvario: 4:00 pm – 11:00 pm ...
5 February – President Bernardo Arévalo announces an agreement allowing for Guatemala to host migrants deported from the United States. [1] 10 February – 2025 Guatemala City bus crash. A bus falls off of a bridge over the Las Vacas River in Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing at least 55 people, and seriously injuring 9 others. [2]
Semana Santa [4] Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are official holidays. May 1 Labour Day: Día del Trabajo: Also called International Workers' Day: June 30 Army Day: Día del Ejército: August 15 Assumption Day: Día de la Asunción: Assumption of Mary into Heaven (only in Guatemala City) September 15 Independence Day: Día de ...
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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.
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851). 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.
In the early 1710s, friar and chronicler Francisco Ximénez, O.P. wrote in the fifth volume of what is known as Historia de la Providencia de San Vicente de Chiapas y Guatemala (History of the San Vicente de Chiapas and Guatemala Providence), that by order of Real Audiencia President, Governor and Captain General of the Kingdom of Guatemala, Jacinto de Barrios Leal, natives from Cahabón went ...
El Progreso was declared a department in 1908, but was dissolved in 1920 before being reestablished in 1934. Guastatoya was badly affected by the 1976 Guatemala earthquake. The department is located in northeastern Guatemala. It is bordered by the departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala, Jalapa, and Zacapa.