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United tastes of europe

United tastes of europe. Holy Week. What is Holy Week?.

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United tastes of europe

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  1. United tastes of europe Holy Week

  2. What is Holy Week? Easter is the Christian annual commemoration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. For this reason, it is a period of intense liturgical activity within the different Christian confessions. It begins on Palm Sunday and ends on the Resurrection Sunday.

  3. Holy Week in La Palma • Palm Sunday:Christ of theForgiveness. • Holy Tuesday: Le Captif. • HolyThursday: OurFatherJesus Nazareno. • Holy Friday: HolyBurial.

  4. Palm Sunday • On Palm Sunday the brotherhood called the Christ of forgiveness does its street parade (procession). The penitents dress as “Nazarenos” in white and black for the Christ and in Bordeaux and black for the Virgin. Behind them there are the images of Jesus and Virgin on their “pasos”.

  5. Holy Tuesday On Holy Tuesday the brotherhood of Nuestro Padre JesúsCautivo, whose images are our Lady of the tears and the Captive Christ, does its “procession”. The penitents dress as “Nazarenos” in Blue and Garnet for both images, the only distinction is the colour of their belt.

  6. Holy Thursday On the Holy Thursday the brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazareno does its procession vey late at night. It’s “la madrugá”. In this one the penitents dress in tunics and hoods dwelt in the waist with a belt of esparto. The virgin who accompanies the Christ is called the Virgin of Help.

  7. Holy Friday On Good Friday the brotherhood of the Holy Burial accompanied of the Virgin of Pain does its procession. Its Nazarenos are dressed in white and black. The penitents wear different belts. those of Christ are black and those of the Virgin are white and black.

  8. TRADITIONS

  9. Ballsmade of wax In our village it is very common for children to make balls of wax when they are watching the processions. Since Nazarenos carry candles, children ask them to pour wax on a silver paper.

  10. Torrijas The “torrijas” is a typicaldish of theHolyWeek in Spain. Itconsists of a slice of bread (mostly of severaldays) thatissoaked in milkorwine. Thenitismuffled in egg, friedwithoil in a frying pan and finally, soaked in honey.

  11. This Power Point was made by: • Cristina Padilla Casares • Nacho Padilla García

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