Holy Thursday: From the Anderos of The Poor to the Duality of Great Power and Macarena

Holy Thursday is another day that the brotherhood in Madrid cannot let pass in the calendar of the sublime. Not only because of the quality of what it processes, but also because it is the day when the mourning of Good Friday does not paralyze it in the but of customs, and it can be given, the brotherhood, to the traditions, religious or gastronomic that are so peculiar to it. Let us cite, before exquisitely procedural details, the two brotherho…

Photograph of the tattoo of a man in the procession of Our Father Jesus of Great Power and Mary Most Holy of Hope Macarena in Madrid this Holy Thursday. I EFE The entry Celebration of Holy Thursday in Madrid was first published in Digital Process.

The Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH) has opened an unprecedented window to the artistic history of the Gran Poder de Sevilla pass. Through an exhibition entitled The revealed image, the center offers for the first time to the public the X-rays taken during the restoration made in 2012 of the baroque walks that Francisco Ruiz Gijón carved in the seventeenth century. The exhibition allows us to discover details invisible to the hu…

This article was originally published in Noticias para Municipios. The streets of the center of Madrid are once again filled with fervor, music and tradition. Today, the most outstanding processions of Holy Week arrive. Today, Holy Thursday, the processions will open Our Father Jesus Nazareno ‘El Pobre’ and Mary Most Holy of Sweet Name in his Soledad, from the church of San Pedro El Viejo. On their journey, when arriving at the Plaza de la Villa…

Victoria, Fundación, Rosario, Exaltación, Quinta Angustia, Pasión, Valle. What day can be compared to this? From the early hours of the afternoon, calling the bells to the trades, everything is different. Holy Week is in its center. Meanwhile, two steps tremble with impatience in its basilicas, starving the sacred images of street, of doors opening at midnight and at the one of the Dawn, to give themselves to all; a suspended psalm awaits on a M…

The brotherhood of the Passion has made a penitentiary station inside the Holy Cathedral Church from the parish of Peace, after making a very sinulgar tour of the streets of its neighborhood, San Basilio. The brotherhood counts almost 400 Nazarenes who accompany the steps of Our Father Jesus of the Passion and Mary Most Holy of Love.