EASTER. PROCESSING TIME

Today begins the Holy Week; For a week, the drumbeats and the sharp sounds of the trumpets will take over cities and towns of Spain whose inhabitants will take to the streets to live, once again, the passion, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Throughout these days, processional parades through the streets and squares of every corner of our national geography will take place. Cofrades, Spanish women with mantillas, smell of incense, tinkling of bells, dry blows of callers … We are in the Spanish Week.

Christs with the Cross on their backs, crucified, receiving whips, crowned with thorns; Virgins in green cloaks of hope, red with blood, black with pain. Spanish with Mantilla, cofrades with multicolored habits; Bands of music, horns and drums. The Spanish Week.

La Coruña, as well as the rest of the Spanish cities, will also see how the penitential guilds parade through their streets and with them our Meigas, who, once again, will contribute their grain of sand to the resurgence of our Holy Week.

Our city was never a national landmark in these celebrations, it was always a little more than "walking around the house"; Nevertheless, since the recovery that took place at the beginning of the 1940s after the absurd prohibitions of the Republic, La Coruña tried to find its place in the calendar weeks.

Very far behind are those processions of Holy Wednesday leaving the church of St. George, as well as the other that departed, on the night of Holy Thursday, the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria with the Christ that is preserved in this temple and the two magnificent "Steps" of Rivas, now disappeared. Even far behind is that procession of Resurrection Sunday, which began in unison with the churches of Santiago and San Nicolás.

However, in recent years, thanks to the strength of the Brotherhood of Soledad and Santo Entierro and the rest of the existing in the city, not only has managed to recover processions that had ceased to leave, but also new ones that Today make up the program of Holy Week Coruña.

Let us live with faith and recollection these days in the hope that at its conclusion one more year, as always, spring will have exploded.

Happy Easter to everyone.