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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]
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 ...
Address: "Lic. Clemente Marroquin Rojas", 5 Av 7–26, Zona 1, Ciudad de Guatemala. [4] Hospital La Paz A branch of the central La Paz hospital in Zone 11. Address: 8a. avenida 2-48, Zona 1, Ciudad de Guatemala. [5] Hospital de la Polcia Nacional Public hospital. Address: 11 Av 4-49, Zona 1, Ciudad de Guatemala. [6] Hospital San Pablo (Saint ...
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 ...
Historically, the area now included in the department of El Progreso was known as Guastatoya or Huastatoya, derived from Nahuatl huäxyötl or huäxin ("calabash") and atoyac ("last"), meaning the last place that calabashes grow, a reference to the change in altitude that occurs in the department, and corresponding climatic change from cold to hot.
The first hospital in Antigua was founded by Hermano Pedro Betancourt, a Franciscan priest in the early 1600s in a small thatched hut near the present site of the Belen Convent. Brother Pedro became known for physically picking the sick and abandoned up in the streets and carrying them to his hospital in his arms or on his back.
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 ...
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.