Holy Week in Valladolid

Procession in Plaza Mayor.
An Holy Week procession.
Holy Week procession in the city.
"The Fifth Anxiety" ("La Quinta Angustia" in Spanish), by Gregorio Fernández, Valladolid, 1625.
Brotherhoods.
Parade horses during the proclamation.
Paso on the streets.
Members of different brotherhoods.
At night.
"Lying Christ" by Gregorio Fernández.
Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Meeting of the Virgin with her child in the street of the bitterness.
"Pasta of the penitent", one of the food that is typical of the Gastronomy of Holy Week. This cuisine is mainly composed of sweets, pastas, pastries, cakes and other desserts (see also: Cuisine of the province of Valladolid).

Holy Week of Valladolid is one of the main cultural events, religious and tourist attraction of Valladolid and the province during Holy Week. Their carvings are among the greatest artistic value of the world in polychrome sculpture, mainly thanks to image makers like Juan de Juni and Gregorio Fernández,[1] assets in the period in which the city was imperial court. The National Sculpture Museum of the city gives a total of 104 images (distributed in the corresponding pasos) to the processions, such as fact museum unique in Spain.[2] The Holy Week in Valladolid has been described as the representing with greater fidelity, rigor and detail the passion.[3]

In addition to the artistic value and catechetical programs of its religious imagery, the Week is characterized by devotion, sobriety, silence[4] (different from processions of Andalusia) and respect of the brotherhoods and the public, and by unique acts as the "General Procession of the Sacred Passion of the Redeemer"[5] and "Sermon of the Seven Words" in Plaza Mayor, which recalls to the autos de fe 16th century. For all these reasons, this celebration was declared of International Tourist Interest in 1980 (the first week Spanish Saint to hold such declaration), and in 2014 started the paperwork to get their recognition as intangible cultural heritage.[6]

Brotherhoods

The 20 brotherhoods (5 were historical and the rest were created from 1920) of the city had a total of 59 different pasos, which are described within the brotherhood owner of each paso, and held a total of 33 processions (to which must be added the "Proclamation" and "Sermon of the Seven Words").[7]

Processions

The processions begin the Friday before of Good Friday and will happen until the Sunday of Resurrection. Hundreds of penitents or cofrades take part on the parades, either carrying the pasos or walking the old streets of the city with crosses, flags or candles. Thousands of people, locals and visitors attend the events. The silence is only interrupted by the sound of drums and trumpets. The pasos are the core of the festival. They consist of a wooden sculpture or group of sculptures that narrates a scene from the Passion of Christ. They are carried by porters in a platform or staves by the members of Brotherhoods. The processions are organized by hermandades and cofradías (religious brotherhoods). Members precede the pasos dressed in penitential robes with capirotes, (tall, pointed hoods with eye-holes). The capirotes were designed so the faithful could repent in anonymity, without being recognised as self-confessed sinners. Each brotherhood has its own colors, that are seen in the costumes of the members, to distinguish them from other brotherhoods.

The Archbishopric of Valladolid, carefully following the liturgy, has been considering the day of the Holy Saturday as non-liturgical, and therefore, not suitable for holding processions. Based on this consideration, only have a procession of Solitude, in the morning and with absence of any adornment to the image of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias and the transfer of the Recumbent Christ in the afternoon, with the that closes the Passion and we are still waiting for the Resurrection. Special importance is the offer of the headaches to the Blessed Virgin, penitential act that is celebrated in the church of Vera Cruz to the painful of the Vera Cruz and that enjoys great fervor among the members.[8]

The Days of Holy Week

During the Friday and Saturday of Passion Week and into Holy Week itself, the following brotherhoods make their penitential processions in Valladolid, by the order of precedence of their entry into the main church and by the date of their founding.

Friday of Sorrows

Passion Saturday

Palm Sunday

Holy Monday

Holy Tuesday

Holy Wednesday

Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Good Friday (General Procession)

Holy Saturday

Easter Sunday

See also

Bibliography

References

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