Medinaceli

HOLY WEEK IN MEDINACELI

Since the XVI century, the processions have been carried out in the same way as today. Formerly and until 1976, the steps were kept in the Ermita del Humilladero, but due to its location, away from the town and for having been violated the entrance door, it was decided to leave them in the Collegiate. Currently there are three brotherhoods, the Vera-Cruz with white hoods, the Santo Entierro with black hoods and the most recent creation, the Piedad, whose hoods are white with purple sash and hood. The current processions are listed below and in parentheses the days they are taken out in procession: - Prayer in the Garden (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday). - Jesus tied to the column (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Humility (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Jesus with the cross on his shoulders (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Jesús Nazareno de Medinaceli (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Piedad (Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday) - Christ of Medinaceli ( Holy Saturday) - Christ of the Enagüillas (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Sepulchre (Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Sepulchre that is in the Hermitage of Beato Julián (Good Friday) - Virgen de la Soledad ( Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday) - Virgin Dolorosa. It is in the Hermitage of Beato Julián (Good Friday). All the processions are led by the golillas or bolillas, as they are popularly known, they are dressed in black suits and with gola (baberillo), until a few years ago they wore sword and cap or hat. The different acts and processions that take place in Medinaceli are: - Palm Sunday: -18:00 hours: Procession with the different pasos, leaving from the Collegiate Church and going through some of the streets of the town and returning again to the Collegiate Church (Until 1976 it was used to take the pasos from the Ermita del Humilladero to the Collegiate Church for the different processions). - Holy Thursday: -18:30 hours: Mass of the Lord's Supper in the Church of Santa Isabel. -20:30 hours: Holy Hour in Santa Isabel, the brothers of the brotherhood of the Vera-Cruz and Piedad gather in this church, then goes to the Collegiate to collect the different steps and begins the procession through different streets of the town. This procession is accompanied by the band of drums and bugles of the Brotherhood of the Vera Cruz de Almazán. - Good Friday. - 12:00 hours: Via Crucis Children's Procession from the Collegiate Church. - 12:30 a.m.: Stations of the Cross in the Church of Santa Isabel. - 18:30 hours: Holy Office in Santa Isabel Church - 21:00 hours: Sermon of the Solitude in the Collegiate Church and then the procession of the Holy Burial, in charge of the Brotherhood of the Holy Burial. Departing from the Collegiate with two steps, the Sepulchre and the Sorrowful Virgin, it goes through the Plaza Mayor to the Hermitage of Blessed Julian and returns back to the Collegiate. - Holy Saturday. - 18:00 hours: Rosary in Santa Isabel - 23:00 hours: Easter Vigil in Santa Isabel. - Easter Sunday. - 13:00 Eucharist of Resurrection in Santa Isabel. - 19:00 hours: Rosary in Santa Isabel - 19:30 hours: Vespers in Santa Isabel.