Spain’s Holy Week Confraternities Celebrate the Jubilee Year in Rome

Spain’s Holy Week confraternities celebrate the Jubilee year in Rome

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist attraction, demonstrating the complex reality of their fame.

"We will put on the streets of the most beautiful city in the world our Holy Week!" said author Rafa Serna (1965-2019) in his proclamation three years before his death. But he did not speak of Rome, but of Seville, of its tradition, of its culture, its people and above all, of its Holy Week. A Seville that is Andalusia and that at the same time is Spain. A Seville that, being the feet of the Cachorro, makes history in Rome next to the Hope of Ma…

The Brotherhood of the Escolapios processed in June 2000, another Jubilee year, and became the first image of Andalusian and Granada Holy Week to tour the streets of the capital of Christianity Chronicle Extraordinary Departure I Centenari

The international procession will travel 3.75 kilometers through emblematic places such as the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus, in an event that recognizes the pastoral work of the brotherhoods This is the definitive route of the procession of the Cub in Rome All

El Cachorro has dawned in its processional passage as if it were Good Friday. However, it is neither Good Friday nor Castile Street. Everything is prepared for the streets of Rome, along with the Hope of Malaga and other devotions, on the afternoon of this 17th May, a day that will already be historic for Sevillians and Malaga thanks to the Great Procession for the Jubilee of the Confraternities. Both carvings have been exhibited in veneration f…

The Christ of Expiration and the Virgin of Hope of Malaga will tour the streets of Rome this Saturday. This Great Procession, in which other European images will also participate, is the central event of the Jubilee of the Confraternities that is celebrated this weekend in the Italian capital.