can u telll me everything about la semana santa?

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in mexico not spain

just in mexico not spain only mexico and what about pascua

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Answer 1

Semana Santa in MEXICO (as you requested)

Semana Santa is Mexico's second most important holiday season of the year, behind only Christmas, and runs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. Mass is attended on Good Friday and Easter Sunday

Semana Santa, or Holy Week, celebrates the Christian holiday of Easter. Mexico is nearly 90 percent Catholic, so this religious holiday takes on a special meaning that the entire community shares and participates in.

All of Mexico celebrates Semana Santa, but certain cities and villages are better known for celebrating the holiday, and often provide reenactments of the events leading up to Christ's crucifixion on the cross.

Churches will be filled with those attending "wake" services on Holy (Maundy)Thursday, Mass on Good Friday, Vigil on Saturday and Easter Sunday (Resurrection), when the 40 days of Lent end. (In traditional times, mourning practices were kept from Holy Thursday through Saturday, when the devoted abstained from any sort of festivites.)

The most moving event of Semana Santa is the reenactment of the Passion of Christ, or the Passion Play. The event's are sponsored by religious or community groups, and can include large processions of penitents, sometimes on their knees, a portrayal of the last supper and the crucifixion itself.

In most towns and cities, important religious images from the church will be displayed, traditional altars are decorated at home and in the streets, and flower decorations and palm crosses will be found everywhere. The central colonial cities seem to celebrate this holiday with the most reverence and tradition.

Semana de Pascua is the week following Semana Santa, during which time the celebration of Easter (the resurrection of Jesus Christ) continues. There is normally no school during these two weeks and it´s usually the time that many Mexicans take their vacations.

Hope this helps :-)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You ask about Semana Santa in Mexico and not Spain.

Let me tell you something

The most amazing Semana Santa in the whole world is not in Spain or Mexico.

THE MOST WONDERFUL SEMANA SANTA IN THE WORLD IS IN GUATEMALA. I think by now, most of the hotels are full for that season.

Go to Guatemala for Semana Santa or try to investigate. In YouTube for sure you will find a lot of videos of Semana Santa in Guatemala. NOTHING LIKE GUATEMALA FOR THE HOLY WEEK.

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Answer 4

Semana Santa (Holy Week) is in fact celebrated all over Spain from Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) to Domingo de Resurreccion (Easter Sunday), though some smaller towns only have processions on Jueves Santo (Maundy Thursday) and Viernes Santo (Good Friday).

Each trono is extremely heavy for the numerous throne carriers underneath who have to carry it along the route of the procession. In Seville and Jerez thet are called costaleros, in Malaga simply hombres de trono. In addition to the the valuable religious image, the trono has a lot of silver candelabra, aromatic flowers and richly embroidered robes which sway as the float creeps along its ritual path.

The processions are long-winded, so the brotherhood organisers set up tribunas (stands) where you can sit and watch for the price of an abono (seaon ticket).

saetas
Music is important in the procedure. Bands of bugles and drums play marches and the procession stops at key points for a solo religious song: the saeta. The saeta (literally arrow to the heart) is an emotional cry and sung in the street. Its plaintive laments echo through the streets making us live and feel the Passion, Death and Resurrection of our Lord.

Major towns will have processions every night of Holy Week, each with their cofradias (lay brotherhoods) and penitentes (penitents), which incidentally have nothing to do with the KKK despite their pointed hats. The cofradias tend to have long important names such as Pontificia y Venerable e Ilustre Hermandad de Nuestra Madre y Señora de la Soledad y Sagrado Descendimiento de Nuestro Señor Jesucristo.

The procession is a serious affair and usually has two tronos (heavy religious floats) bearing valuable sculptures of the Virgin Mother weeping tears of jewels and of Christ, not always crucified. Preceding the pasos are hundreds of nazarenos - Nazarenes but just another name for penitents. They dress in long hooded túnicas (gowns) made of velvet and satin, and carry the flickering velas (candles) that leave the streets slippery with wax. Others carry luxurious sceptres.

I want to mention that even though this article only talks about Semana Santa in Spain, the Holy Week is also celebrated in all the Latin American countries.