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From Hooded Robes to Midnight Parades—Spain’s Holy Week Traditions Are Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
Santa Semana—or Holy Week—in Spain is a big, BIG deal. Started in the 1600’s as a way for the “common folk” to understand and participate in religion, today, the Holy Week events have been declared ...
As incense and candles burn, trumpets blare and drums beat, penitents covered in colorful tunics and conical hoods march slowly through the night toward the cathedral. Life-size statues of Jesus and ...
People attending a traditional Easter Sunday parade in southern Spain shot and burned an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump during the celebration. The “Quema de Judas” (“Burning of Judas”) ...
When he was blessing the Easter fire as part of the Easter Vigil, the priest’s vestments caught fire, burning 50% of his body, according to diocesan sources. Father Javier Sánchez, 60, from the ...
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