AP PHOTOS: Rain or shine, emotions run high at Seville's Holy Week processions in Spain

AP PHOTOS: Rain or shine, emotions run high at Seville's Holy Week processions in Spain

SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — With tears of emotion often flowing down their faces, tens of thousands of faithful have packed the rooftops, bridges and narrow streets of this historic city in southern Spain to watch much-venerated images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary carried in hourslong processions througho

“If it were for me, I would come back every year...,” said Queen Sofia when in 1984 she attended the processions of Holy Week in Seville. This morning she fulfilled her wish.

Not a few doctors change the robe and capirote during Holy Week. In Seville alone, there are hundreds of doctors, and there are all ages and ideologies. “We have a humanistic vocation, and in the brotherhood we accompany her with a religious sentiment,” says Juan Manuel Contreras, former secretary general of the Colegio Médicas of the Andalusian capital and member of the Brotherhood of Silence, who this year, as could not be otherwise, will revi…

The Confraternity of the Most Holy Christ of the Crossroad and Mary Most Holy of the Tears did not live this Holy Thursday the best of the processional departures. The passage of palio had several problems and finally had to be helped by several people from the outside in order to reach his temple at about two o’clock in the morning. Lagrimas came out from the church of San José after several years and from the start the problems began. A lanter…

APTOPIX Spain Palm Sunday – The Herald Journal

As teh sun rose over the quaint streets of Spain, communities across the nation embraced one of the most cherished traditions in the Christian calendar—Palm Sunday.This vibrant observance, marked by the blessing of palm branches and solemn processions, offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of Spanish culture and religious devotion. In the cities and [...]

Canal C Semana Santa like you never saw it: the Spanish cities that are completely transformed Spain is not alien to the passion with which the Holy Week is lived. In every corner of the country, tradition is mixed with emotion and thousands of people go out to the streets to accompany processions that leave the skin of hens. Although Barcelona does not lead the ranking in terms of religious fervor, it is part of this great postcard that every y…