This Friday the Friday of Dolores festival is celebrated. It belongs to the last days of Lent before the start of Holy Week. Always on the calendar, Friday of Sorrows goes two days before Palm Sunday, which this year is Sunday April 2, and gives way to the first processions in all of Spain.
Its celebration takes place during the fifth week of Lent and the day after Passion Thursday since this festivity was established in the fifteenth century.
On the festive day of Friday of Dolores, although in some cities it is considered exclusively non-school, it is also popularly used to start Easter.
Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, it is also known as Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, Virgen de la Amargura, Virgen de la Piedad, Virgen de las Angustias or La Dolorosa.
Throughout this day, Christians remember the seven sorrows of the Virgin Mary in relation to Jesus Christ, his crucifixion and his death.
The Second Vatican Council proposed in 1959 to suppress the duplication of parties in the calendar. Thus, the Friday of Dolores also had a festive replica on September 15 with the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows.
However, from the Vatican they allowed each town or city to maintain its liturgical calendar on the date that this celebration traditionally has.
On Dolores Friday, the first processions before Holy Week also take place in Madrid. Below we highlight the schedules and scheduled processions:
Vespers, Friday of Dolores and Saturday of Passion, are for the neighborhood corporations furthest from the center of Seville, the ones that have the most difficulty making a penance station in the cathedral before Holy Week.
These Brotherhoods come from neighborhoods such as Pino Montano, Bellavista, Palmete, San Jerónimo, Torreblanca or Nervión. It is the most unknown Sevillan Holy Week, but it has little to envy in art and passion to the rest of the days.
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