Good Friday always offers a bittersweet sensation. On the one hand, it is a day that is greatly enjoyed, but it is also the reminder that everything ends, even this long-awaited and long-awaited Easter. The brotherhoods of this day offer a different vision of Holy Week in Malaga.
Mourning and sobriety, silence and slow marches, win the Center and transform it after the hyperbole of Holy Thursday. It’s the day that the death of Jesus is remembered and this feeling goes ‘in crescendo’ as the night progresses. Mount Calvary, Descent and Dolores of San Juan they open the afternoon, hot and lonely, filling the seats of the route as they go and with the Cathedral as their final objective. After them will come devotions with a long tradition in their neighborhoods, such as Holy Transfer (Trinity), Love (Victory) and Mercy (Molinillo)ending with the silence and the black of the Sepulcher and Servites.
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At four in the afternoon, in the victory neighborhood, maybe the last district of the Centerbegan this splendid Holy Friday Malaga with the departure of the brotherhood of Mount Calvarya brotherhood in which the position does not matter, penance is the same for everyone. There are no differences. All are equal. It is an example of the humility that every Nazarene should preach. A section of Nazarenes with wooden crosses walk behind the throne of Christ. Strong crosses, made of black wood and with the stamp of ‘Charity‘ on the cruise. A penance that requires ppatience and temperance to take her all the way. It is not made for everyone. They are only three details of the peripatetic catechisms that form the Mount Calvary procession. There are four of the seven virtues of the Virgin: Charity, Humility, Patience and Temperance. One could go on, but it is clear that the evangelical message is glimpsed in every detail that the brotherhood has thought… KEEP READING
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From Victoria a La Malagueta, where the dates of Holy Week at the beginning of spring are causing very sudden weather changes. If there was rain on Holy Tuesday, on Good Friday you could see the throne bearers of the descent sweating for him paseo de Reding. the brotherhood of La Malagueta is the second sorority to complete the official tour. Heat and sun that had shone the gold of the throne and was consumed in the black of the robes. Some candles sagged from the heat, it seems that this good weather almost wanted to erase the brotherhood mourning, remembering that in two days we celebrate the Easter… KEEP READING
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