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ARCHIVED - Águilas Semana Santa 5th to 12th April 2020
Easter Week processions in Águilas from the 5th to the 12th April 2020
The Semana Santa week processions and events in Águilas take place during the whole of the week of Easter, concluding on Resurrection Sunday, known as Easter Sunday in our own culture.
The processions and acts of penitence are religious acts, but the sheer beauty of the rows of penitents, flowers and sculptures which parade during this important week, are also popular with those of all religious denominations, bringing colour and spectacle to the streets of the town.
There are nine “Cofradías” (brotherhoods) and two “Agrupaciones” (bands), which have a collection of 19 different “Pasos” (images) between them, and more than 1,500 members, most of whom will parade during the different events which comprise the Semana Santa in Águilas.
There are two main churches around which these processions focus:
The Parroquia de San José, Calle de Floridablanca on the corner of Plaza de España, Águilas (Click for map Plaza de España Águilas) and the Parroquia del Carmen, Calle Doctor Luis Prieto, 10, (Click for map, Calle Doctor Luis Prieto Águilas).
The 2020 Semana Santa programme in Águilas is as follows:
3rd April (Viernes de los Dolores)
This is also the feast day of the Patron of Águilas, the Virgen de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows).
11.00: Holy Mass in the church of San José, followed by the official presentation speech of the Easter Week celebrations.
12.45: Floral offering at the door of the church of San José.
19.30: Mass in the church of San José, during which the medals of the float-bearers in the Easter processions will be blessed and the “Ofenda de la Luz” will be attended by those taking part in the processions.
21.00: Procession of the figure of Nuestra Señora Virgen de los Dolores through the streets of the city centre, accompanied by the music society which bears her name and numerous Nazarenes, standard-bearers and local dignitaries as well as all of the local processional brotherhoods.
5th April (Palm Sunday, Domingo de Ramos)
10.30: The procession of palms, in which families carry palm and olive branches, as well as the braided white palm decorations typical of Holy Week. The palms are first blessed before participants commemorate the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem on a donkey. The procession is from the Parroquia del Carmen to the Parroquía of San José, and includes the images of Christ on a donkey and the Virgen de la Estrella.
The route runs from the Parroquia del Carmen along Calle Luis Prieto, Calle Juan Carlos I and Calle Rey Carlos III to the Plaza de España.
8th April Miercoles Santo (Holy Wednesday)
The Procesión del Prendimiento (the procession of the Taking of Christ), the Oración en el Huerto (the oration in the Garden of Gethsemene) and Santiago Apóstol.
19.30: The Oración en el Huerto procession leaves from the Casa de Hermandad of the Nuestro Señor de la Columna brotherhood and proceeds along the streets of Castelar, Juan Jiménez Crouseilles, Floridablanca, Antonio Manzanera and Luis Prieto.
20.00: Santiago Apóstol sets out along a route which includes the Calle Robles, Calle Progreso, Calle Madre de Dios, Calle Ancha, Calle Castellanos and Calle Luis Prieto.
20.30: The different Pasos join up with the Agrupación Nuestro Padre Jesús del Prendimiento la Oración, and leave from the Parroquia del Carmen on a route which includes Luis Prieto, Juan Carlos I, Conde de Aranda, the Plaza de España (Parroquia de San José) and Coronel Pareja before ending in the fishing port in the Lonja de los Pescadores (Explanada de Puerto) and the headquarters of the brotherhoods.
9th April (Maundy Thursday)
24.00 Midnight: Procession of silence, with the image of Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Agonía, leaving from the Casa de Hermandad in Calle Lotería and proceeding along Candelaria and Juan Carlos I to Luis Prieto.
At this point there is an encuentro (a meeting) between the images of Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Agonía, María Santísima de la Soledad and San Juan Evangelista in the Plaza del Caño de los Arcos.
Following this, the procession continues via the streets of Antonio Manzanera, Floridablanca, Juan Jiménez Crouseilles, Castelar and the Plaza de España, ending at the Parroquia de San José.
10th April (Good Friday, Viernes Santo)
07.00: Traditional solemn Via Crucis with the image of Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, following the different stations of the cross from the seat of the Cofradía in Caño de los Arcos to the Calvary. The route runs along Fuente Nueva, Luis Prieto, Juan Carlos I, Sepulcro, Goya, Hospital, Pilar, Monte Calvario and ends at the Calvario.
09.30: The morning procession of the Holy Encounter (Procesión del Santo Encuentro).
The images of the Cristo del Prendimiento, Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Columna and Nuestra Señora la Virgen de los Dolores set out from the Parroquia de San José in the Plaza de España along Castelar, Juan Jiménez Crouseilles, Floridablanca, Antonio Manzanera and Luis Prieto.
At 10.40 there is an encuentro (the moment when sculptures meet each other face to face after arriving from different directions) at the corner of Juan Carlos I and Luis Prieto of the Virgen de los Dolores, Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno and San Juan Evangelista (St John the Baptist).
11.15: the procession continues along Juan Carlos I, Puerto de Poniente, Francisco Rabal, Isabel Católica and the Plaza de España (in front of the Town Hall) before ending at the Parroquia de San José.
Taking part in this procession are the Agrupación del Cristo del Prendimiento and the images of Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Columna, Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, San Juan Evangelista, Santa Mujer Verónica and the Cristo del Consuelo with Nuestra Señora La Virgen de los Dolores.
20.15: The evening procession, the Procesión del Santo Entierro (the Holy Burial).
The procession leaves from the Parroquia de San José in the Plaza de España and proceeds along Castelar, Juan Jiménez Crouseilles, Floridablanca, Antonio Manzanera, Luis Prieto, Juan Carlos I, Rey Carlos III before returning to the church where it started.
The images featured in the procession leaving from the Plaza de España are the Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre, the Santo Sepulcro and Nuestra Señora la Virgen de los Dolores. They are joined in the Plaza del Caño de los Arcos by María Santísima de la Soledad, the Virgen de la Piedad, the Cristo de la Misericordia, San Juan Evangelista, Santa Mujer Verónica and the Cristo del Consuelo.
11th April (Easter Sunday)
Today the mood changes from one of mourning to one of celebration as Christ is resurrected. The procession is bright and cheerful with a joyous encuentro between the images of Jesus resurrected and the Virgen de la Esperanza.
09.30: Procession of the resurrection with the images of Cristo Resucitado and San Pedro Apóstol. Route: Departure from the Parroquia del Carmen, via Luis Prieto, Antonio Manzanera, Floridablanca, Juan Jiménez Crouseilles, Castelar, the Plaza de España, Conde de Aranda and Juan Carlos I, ending in the Parroquia del Carmen. Here an “encuentro” takes place with the image of the Virgen de la Esperanza.
Religious functions in the two principal churches:
PARROQUIA DE SAN JOSÉ
Holy Monday
20:00 Celebration of the Sacrament of Penitence.
Holy Thursday
19:30 Mass of the Last Supper as Jesus washes the feet of his disciples
22:30 Holy hour
Good Friday
18:00 Service to remember the passion and death of Christ
Holy Saturday
22:00 Midnight vigil
Resurrection Sunday/Easter Sunday
12:00 Mass
19:30 Mass
PARROQUIA DEL CARMEN
Holy Tuesday
19:30 Celebration of the Sacrament of Penitence
Holy Thursday
19:00 Mass of the Last Supper
22:30 Holy Hour
Good Friday
17:30 Service to remember the passion and death of Christ
Holy Saturday
21:30 Vigil
Easter Sunday
09:30 Procession of the resurrection and Mass, 11.30 Mass, 19.00 Mass
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