Easter week
Uniqueness and tradition
Nazarene brothers carrying crosses on their shoulders on Good Friday morning.
Centennial brotherhoods are part of Holy Week in Baena
The brotherhoods will be coliblancas or colinegros according to the crowd of Jews that accompany them
The Baenense Holy Week celebrations have their roots in the first third of the 16th century and their protagonists are the thousands of brotherhoods who are part of the more than 50 brotherhoods (many of them subdivided into gangs) integrated into the brotherhoods that process the Palm Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Good Friday, as well as Easter Sunday.
These brotherhoods are integrated into seven penitential brotherhoods that worship sacred images with which the most crucial moments of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ are remembered. In this way, tradition, the most unique folklore and Faith are inextricably linked, a Faith that is lived in a very special way in Baena because what in many places is synonymous with recollection and silence, here becomes an explosion of sound and color, something unique that leads those who star in it to experience a catharsis in which the deepest religious feelings emerge in this peculiar way in search of the transcendent.
Brotherhoods of Holy Week in Baena
Palm Sunday
Brotherhood of the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem
Foundation: 1981
Number of brothers: 700
Canonical seat: Parish Church of Santa María la Mayor.
Processional parade: Palm Sunday. Departure at 11:00 a.m. In addition to the titular brotherhood that worships the popular “Borriquita” and the Virgen del Amor, a large sample of children from the different Baenenses brotherhoods participate in the procession on this day, and can be considered a true brotherhood school where the little ones have their first contact with these centuries-old traditions. Among the most outstanding elements of this first penance station in the town are the biblical figures and some of the “steps” that represent how to “play the coins” or “scare the evangelists” in which the betrayal of Judas is recreated Iscariot and the Jewish persecution of the first followers of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Holy Wednesday
Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of the Garden and San Diego
Foundation: End of the 16th century.
Number of brothers: 1,200 (black-collared Jews are not counted).
Canonical seat: Conventual Church of San Francisco.
Processional parade: Holy Wednesday. Departure at 8:00 p.m. Inthe penance station of this brotherhood, the first in the big days of the town, the crowd of Jews of the Black Tail participates as a guest, which makes more than 3,000 the brothers who procession. Among the most outstanding moments are the exit of the image of Jesús del Huerto at dusk, the passage of the Cristo de los Azotes through the middle section of Amador de los Ríos street (Muralla) and the Arrest in the Plaza de la Constitution (Paseo) where white-tailed Jews, sayones and the figure of Judas who will stage the betrayal of his master in the Olive Garden participate.
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Holy Thursday
Illustrious Archconfraternity of the True Cross and Our Father Jesus of the Arrest
Foundation: First third of the 16th century.
Number of brothers: 1,200
Canonical seat: Church of Santa Marina.
Processional parade: Holy Thursday. Departure at 9:00 p.m. Moments of special beauty are those experienced at the beginning of the procession when, in a unique setting, next to the walls and towers of the town’s castle, the “embrace of the apostles” and the Arrest with the titular image take place. of the brotherhood The passage of the procession through the middle section of Amador de los Ríos street and the return, already at dawn on Good Friday, when silence has taken over the streets of Almedina and the Via Crucis of the Cristo del Perdón crosses the historic neighborhood, are some of the moments that will make this parade something unique.
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Good Friday
Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Forgiveness (Silence)
Foundation: 1962
Number of brothers: 250
Canonical seat: Chiesa parrocchiale di Santa María la Mayor.
Processional parade: Good Friday. Departure at 1:00 a.m. The contrast to the thunderous sound of the drums that permeates the streets of Baena during the days of Holy Week is experienced in the Via Crucis that the brotherhood of Cristo del Perdón performs in the Almedina neighborhood. The absence of a mob of Jews in this brotherhood and the recollection of their brothers who carry crosses on their shoulders and shackles with chains on their feet, have earned it the popular name of procession of Silence. It is worth following along the entire route and witnessing the crossing with the Single Squad of Repentant Jews (“in mourning”) in the vicinity of the castle’s bastions.
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Good Friday
Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazareno
Foundation: 1589
Number of brothers: 2,500 (the faithful of lighting are not counted).
Canonical seat: Conventual Church of San Francisco.
Processional parade: Good Friday. Departure at 6:00 a.m. It is the morning par excellence, the big day of Baena in which the Faith of a people is externalized. For this reason, the people who accompany carrying candles at the beginning of the parade, far exceed a thousand. It is the titular image of the brotherhood that arouses this intense fervor and that causes numerous bare feet to be observed in fulfillment of a promise. The departure of the Nazarene between touches of the Roman century and chants of saetas, the arrival of the images to the Paseo, the sermon of the Genesis, the Arrest or the Sentence of Pilate are some of the moments that magnify this parade.
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Good Friday
Brotherhood of the Dulce Nombre de Jesús, Santo Cristo del Calvario and Soledad de María Santísima
Foundation: Mid-16th century.
Number of brothers: 1.700
Canonical seat: Parish Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Processional parade: Good Friday. Departure at 8:00 p.m. Solemnity is the characteristic that clearly defines the procession of the Saint. Previously, the collection of the Parishes and the Authorities by the Brotherhood takes place in a protocol that has been repeated over time. Of great relevance are the images that parade on this night and of special interest are the confinement of Soledad, the “passage” of the Three Falls or the Raffle of the Tunic by the Sayones gang. The marches of the Roman century of Angustias, the hoarse drums of the “enlutaos” and those carried by the white-tailed Jews, will give the procession the peculiar sound of Baena.
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Easter Sunday
Royal Archconfraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary and Holy Risen Christ
Foundation:Between1529 y 1548
Number of brothers: 1.638
Canonical seat: Parish Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Processional parade: Easter Sunday. Departure at 11:30 a.m. After the solemn religious function presided over by the Association of Brotherhoods, the last of the processions that make up the Baena Holy Week cycle begins. At the exit takes place the “passage” of the Three Marys and throughout the route the “dance of the Evangelists”, that unique staging where the Jews surprise (“frighten”) the disciples who make a gesture of writing the Holy Gospels. The parade of the Roman century and the throwing of rose petals as the Virgin of the Rosary passes by the church of the Holy Spirit, are some of its most outstanding moments.
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