Holy Friday back to normality in the Archipelago and in the rest of Spain, with the celebration of processions and other massive events. Religious acts were held in Tenerife on this outstanding day of the Holy Weektaking place the main ones in municipalities such as La Laguna, Santa Cruz, La Orotava, Los Realejos or Adeje, among others.
Holy Week on the Peninsula
The ‘get up early‘ from Seville has marked the beginning of the religious celebrations of this long-awaited Good Friday, in which they have been able to recover the processions after two long years of pandemic and alternate them with via crucis, living passions, proclamations and drumming like those of Calanda (Teruel) and Cuenca.
The entrance into their temples of the hope of triana and the Hope Macarena have closed an ‘early morning’ experienced intensely by Sevillians and visitors, who have been able to see six brotherhoods making their penance station through the streets of Seville after two years without being able to leave.
With good temperature and no trace of rainthe first step that has gone out into the street has been that of the Lord of the Sentence around half past twelve, when brotherhoods of the Holy Thursday.
The brotherhoods of the Great Power, Silence, Los Gitanos and El Calvario, in a long and intense night without outstanding incidents. Finished the appointment with the cofrade early morning, Seville prepares to receive the Puppy this afternoon, among other brotherhoods.
Zamora has lived his own early morning with the “five of cups”, Name with which the passage of Jesus on the way to Calvary is popularly known, which stars in the parade of the brotherhood of Jesus Nazareno.
The procession, which lasts from five in the morning until past noon, has had an unprecedented start this year in the Plaza Mayor with the ritual dance of all the steps in unison, which used to be done in the Romanesque church of Saint John of the New Gate and this year he has moved abroad for health prevention.
On the night of Good Friday, Lorca It recreates sacred history in a vibrant and luxurious procession called a biblical-passion parade, far from the traditional recollection of Spanish Holy Week, conceived as a great show and whose aesthetic is inspired by the blockbusters of classic cinema.
And Elche will celebrate again tonight, during the procession of the Entombment On Good Friday, the traditional ilicitana ceremony of the Trencà del Guió in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, in which if this large black flag is broken at first, it is a harbinger of a good year for the city.
Right at midnight, the drums and drums have thundered again after two years of silence in the seven towns of Teruel that “break the hour” on Holy Thursday.
The epicenter of this tamborrada takes place in Urrea de Gaena town with just 500 inhabitants, and extends into the other six towns that make up the Ruta del Tambor y el Bombo de Teruel: Albalate del Arzobispo, Alcorisa, Andorra, Híjar, La Puebla de Híjar and Samper de Calanda.
The drums and bass drums begin to sound in the town of Calanda at noon, reviving a tradition that encompasses all of Bajo Aragón and has been declared an Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO since 2018.
This year the actress and presenter Lara Dibildos has been in charge of “breaking the hour” under the attentive and expectant gaze of hundreds of brothers and fans who, wearing the typical purple tunic, have crowded into the Plaza de España.
The rough drums of the mobs They have also roared again in a crowded Plaza Mayor in Cuenca, where nearly 9,000 people have vibrated with the Camino del Calvario procession, which has been able to complete a route that was interrupted in 2018 and 2019 due to the rains and in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. .
The Proclamation of the Seven Words has broken the silence of the streets of Valladolid early this Good Friday morning, in which there have been mentions of the war in Ukraine and others silenced in various parts of the world.
Due to its originality, the one from the Granada town of Montefrío stands out, called ‘the Recaicos’, a tradition that disappeared in the 60s and that has been recovered by the brotherhoods that have recently emerged.
In this procession, which begins in the Church of the Incarnation, the image of Our Father Jesus Nazarene He “whispers” something in the ear of San Juan, who in turn transmits the message to the Virgen de los Dolores.
The meeting between San Juan and La Dolorosa, in the presence of Jesús Nazareno, is the most emotional moment of the Procession of the Stepsemblem of Holy Week in León, which has brought together thousands of people in the procession organized since 1611 by the Brotherhood of the Dulce Nombre de Jesús Nazareno.
Nearly 2,000 people have participated in the early hours of Good Friday in the Penitential Way of the Cross around the Avila wall and Andosilla has celebrated in the morning the thirtieth edition of his living passion, a way of the cross that has become one of the most emblematic acts of Holy Week in Navarra.
The locations of Balmaseda (Bilbao), Albuquerque (Badajoz) and Castro Urdiales (Cantabria) they have once again celebrated their living passions, while Ferrol (Galicia) has hosted the massive procession of the Holy Encounter, the first and most anticipated of Good Friday, the central day of its Holy Week, a celebration of International Tourist Interest.
In Saint Vincent of the Sonsierra (La Rioja), six disciplined “picaos” have completed their penance on the way of the cross which, thanks to the good weather, has brought together a massive public that has witnessed this ancestral rite from the 16th century.
The six “chopped“, covered with a hood to hide their identity and a white linen habit with an opening in the back, they have walked barefoot the more than three kilometers that this via crucis covers and have flogged their backs with a skein of cotton weighing between 750 and 850 grams for about 20 minutes.
