SEMANA SANTA DE LOS REALEJOS

Villa de Los Realejos
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The Holy Week of Los Realejos is a cluster of traditions forged in the faith and manifested every year in cults and celebrations inherited from centuries and that are combined with the newly created, in a merger that is characterized by its own uniqueness, marked by the orography of the municipality and the multiplication of parishes that are being established in each city.

That Holy Week of past centuries, located in the parent parishes of the Apostle Santiago and Nuestra Sera de la Concepcion, has been diversified with the creation of the new parish entities of Our Lady of the Good Journey in Icod el Alto , Our Lady of Sorrows in Palo Blanco, Our Lady of Las Nieves in La Zamora, Saint Cayetano in La Monta eta, Our Lady of Carmen in Saint August and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Toscal Longuera. In all of them celebrations and cults take place during these days.

Holy Week remains that moment of meeting of the population to attend the celebrations in the temples or accompany in the processions.

Together with each parish, traditions such as the touch of the rattle, stewing the hard boiled eggs to support the long liturgical functions, or bringing the cages with canaries into Easter morning to brighten the temple on such an important day, were forged. But of that, little remains, although the healthy intention of the present generations have gradually wanted to revitalize these ancient ways that were present in the collective memory of the people.

PARTY GUIDE. HE City Council of Los Realejos. Department of Tourism. 2016

SANTIAGO APOSTLE PARISH

The first celebrations in this parish should be placed in the years after the conquest. From then on, different celebratory cults emerged that throughout the week marked different milestones that have remained until today. We must mention here the important work carried out by the guilds, which arise at the beginning of each decade of the nineties of the last century, as true drivers of faith. With this new generation of young people, members of these congregations, and the arrival of an image of peninsular workshops, Holy Week has been structured with a chronological but particular order in this parish. Since the Friday of Dolores, the Eucharistic functions give way to the processional paths, on each day of the Week of greatest importance for Christianity. It is noteworthy the great procession of the Holy Burial, which takes place on the night of Good Friday, where the processional steps travel through the streets, with the scenes of the Passion of Christ, becoming a true catechesis.

PARISH OF OUR PRAYER OF THE CONCEPTION

The Holy Week of this realejera parish also has its beginnings from its foundation there by the year 1532. In the following centuries the functions that were instituted each day of the week took a special role. Many of them preserved despite time and fashion, still exist today. As for the imaginer a, we have to aim ...