Holy Week

Holy week

Easter is a week in which Christians celebrate faith events related to the last days of Jesus, including in particular, his passion, death and resurrection.

In the early fourth century in Christianity is much confusion about when he held the Christian Passover or Easter Day, the anniversary of the resurrection of Jesus ofNazareth. Had emerged at that time many trends or groups of practitioners who usedcalculations. Already at the Council of Arles (in the year 314), is forced to allChristendom to celebrate Easter on the same day, and that this date would be set by the pope, who sent letters to all churches in the world with instructions. However, not allcongregations followed these precepts.

Easter is celebrated with rituals, activities, traditions and varying forms peculiargeographic region is carried out, which coincide with the commemoration of the life,passion, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

The celebration of Holy Week processions have their origins in the late Middle Ages,when the Franciscans were responsible for organizing the processions. Since then thecelebration has known moments of brilliance and other lower, currently living heyday.Spain has retained many different traditions, some of a huge spectacle.

The most important days of Holy Week are formed by the so-called Easter Triduum: The introduction to the Triduum (Holy Thursday and on Friday), which commemorates thedeath of Christ on Holy Saturday, which marks Christ in the tomb, and on Easter Sundayof the Resurrection.