HOLY WEEK
(FROM PALM SUNDAY TO EASTER SUNDAY)
Holy Week of Zaragoza- declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest
(Downloadable Procession Guide made by the Association for the study of Holy Week)
(Downloadable Procession Guide made by the Association for the study of Holy Week)
Photograph by Jorge Sesé
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The most important day of the christian calendar is RESURRECTION DAY OR EASTER SUNDAY,
which is, the step or transformation (conversion and internal transformation of
the body to life and fullness and transformation after death). The date of
Easter Sunday is set according to the lunar cycles following the tradition of
the Jewish lunar calendar of the time of Jesus Christ (approved at the Council
of Nicaea in the year 325).
The first full moon after the boreal spring (or northern hemisphere) equinox marks the time of reference.
The first full moon after the boreal spring (or northern hemisphere) equinox marks the time of reference.
- The first Sunday, after the full moon,commemorates and brings to life the Resurrection of Christ (Easter). Christ is resurrected (day of Light and Joy).
- The previous Sunday is Palm Sunday, the day of the Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, beginning the time of his Passion, Death and Resurrection.
- Lent: it starts on Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Palm Sunday or The Palm. it ends on the Friday of Sorrows (the Friday before Palm Sunday).
- Holy Thursday (the fourth day after the Entry into Jerusalem or Palm Sunday) recounts the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples and the action of the Eucharist..
- On Good Friday (the fifth day after the Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday) the processional act of the HOLY BURIAL or the acts of the Passion and Death of Christ takes place.
- Holy Saturday (the day before Resurrection or Easter Sunday) Christ lies dead (the day of darkness and silence)
The liturgical Holy Week is from
Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. During the whole week the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus
Christ or HOLY WEEK takes place.
(In the previous days to Holy Week - Friday of Sorrows and Saturday of
Passion - various Lenten acts are performed among which stand out: the
processional Via Crucis of Friday of Sorrows or the processional courtship of
the Announcement and the proclamation of the Announcement of the beginning of
the Holy Week, Holy Saturday, a paraliturgical act, which takes place the day
before the start of Holy Week.)
Lent -→Ash Wednesday→ the 14th of February of 2024
Holy
Week: From the 24th of March to the 31th March of 2024:
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Friday of Sorrows -→ 22th March
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Saturday of Passion -→ 23th March
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Palm
Sunday -→ 24th March
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Holy Monday -→ 25th March
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Holy Tuesday -→ 26th March
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Holy Wednesday -→ 27th March
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Holy
Thursday-→ 28th March
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Good
Friday (Holy Burial) -→ 29th March
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Holy Saturday (Saturday of Pain and
Silence) -→30th March
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Easter
Sunday (Resurrection) -→ 31h March
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In the Holy Week of Zaragoza the different brotherhoods [1] publicly parade through the streets carrying all the moments of the Passion of Christ by the “brother” on their shoulders or on the religious floats or “pasos”, represented by imagery - and sculptures in polychrome wood. The Brotherhood of the Blood of Christ, whose canonical headquarters is in the Royal Chapel of Saint Isabel of Portugal (Saint Cayetano), organizes and articulates the Procession of the Holy Burial of Good Friday. In the days before the Holy Burial each brotherhood processes through the streets performing a Via Crucis, and also has meetings with other groups (at different moments of the Passion) or taking the religious floats or“pasos” to lock them (to keep them until they leave on Good Friday) to the Church of Saint Isabel of Portugal. This church is the neuralgic centre of Holy Week and the Holy Burial in Zaragoza, because from there the religious floats and images leave in order. These floats represent the Passion and Death of Christ being Christ on the Bed - the Dead Christ - the fundamental epicenter of the Procession of the Holy Burial or Procession of Processions.
The Holy Week of Zaragoza has more than 700 years of history, more
than 400 years the Holy Burial and now the Passion of Christ is publicly shown
through 53 processions, the Procession of the Holy Burial being one of them.
Around 16,000 procession members and 7,000 bass drums and tambours participate
in these processions and process with
thunderous and atavistic sounds announcing the moment of the Passion and
accompanying Christ through the streets. Along with drums and bass drums, there
are small drums, rattles, ratchets, heraldic trumpets, cornets, “jotas” of
religious content, bands and minstrels.
[1] The brotherhood`s are religious groups which perform works of charity, solidarity as well as social work during the wholw year. They perform the processions in Holy Week.
[1] The brotherhood`s are religious groups which perform works of charity, solidarity as well as social work during the wholw year. They perform the processions in Holy Week.
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CoordinatingBoard of the brotherhoods of the Holy Week in Zaragoza
With the collaboration of the Excellent City Council of Zaragoza
With the collaboration of the Excellent City Council of Zaragoza
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