"Coruña of yesterday". The procession of Holy Thursday

Perhaps that fog in which the memories are submerged with the passage of the years does not allow to return to the memory, with all the freshness, the memory of facts lived; Perhaps the most that can be achieved is a somewhat distorted recovery of reality; However, in one way or another, some episodes of which we were witnesses years ago still remain relatively fresh in the memories, and among them, there are undoubtedly those processions of Holy Thursday Corunna of the beginnings of the 60s.

La Coruña was always oblivious to the topics related to Easter that speak of the deep scent of spring flowers mixed with the unmistakable smell of wax when burned; Nor has our city ever been a stage of showy processions in which carvings of incalculable value or beauty make a penitence station for squares and avenues; Not even the beloved Marineda has distinguished herself by seeing long streets rows of cofrades dressed in multicolored habits run through their streets. Rather the complete opposite. The Holy Week of Corunna constituted – in fact still constitutes it today – a stage in everyday life, a break in the beginning of each spring, which was lived with some recollection and a somewhat peculiar religiosity.