On the morning of Friday March 29, Good Friday, the torreños and have torreñas early to enjoy early in the procession of Calvary, the oldest of the local Holy Week, which started from the Church of Our Lady of Salceda in a parade as tradition has been opened by the third of Romans.
Later, the temple Torreño departed to parade through the streets of the town the thrones of the Samaritan, San Pedro, Christ of the Flagellation, Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, Veronica and Christ of the Fall, Holy Christ Crucified, San Juan and Our Lady of Sorrows.
A parade procession in which the eight brotherhoods of the town and, in the words of the Councillor for Culture and Celebrations Local, Isabel Franco, "highlights the importance and quality carvings and thrones, a major parade, folk, traditional and Which goes a lot of the public. "
In the afternoon the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption of The Pulpites will host the Passion and Death of the Lord (17:30 hours) event to be held a little later in the parish of Our Lady of Salceda (18 hours).
And the Nazarenes will draw the thrones of Our Lady of Mercy, Santa Cruz with the Shroud, Maria Magdalena, San Pedro, Lying Christ ('' The Bed''), St. John and Our Lady of Solitude in the solemn procession of the Holy Burial of Christ (21 hours), starring the recumbent parade-of the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth, which give it a day of Good Friday.
The Risen, in a colorful parade
The day of mourning for the death of the Lord, Holy Saturday, will only night with the Easter Vigil ceremony to be held at 22 am in both parishes.
And on Easter Sunday, March 31, will be as is tradition in the town a day of celebration and joy.
A day that begins very early, as the 8'30 hours held in the parish of Our Lady of the Eucharist Salceda to give way to the procession of the Risen (9:30 pm).
A colorful parade that starts at the door of the parish with the fervent encounter images of the Virgin with the risen Christ, emotional moment that leads to the traditional procession through the streets of the town.
In closing, the Parish of Our Lady of The Assumption of The Pulpites will host the final Eucharist (11 hours) of the 2013 Easter Cotillas Towers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas