The Holy Monday

Holy Week - Day 2: Monday Jesus Clears the Temple

The Holy Monday is the second day of the week in which the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ are commemorated."

The Easter Monday as the Catholic liturgy recalls the passage of the Anointing at Bethany, and the story of the events that occurred on Easter Monday and the expulsion of the merchants from the Temple of Jerusalem. As reflected in the Gospel of St. John.

For the uninitiated just mention that Bethany is the town where Lazarus lived, whom Christ raised, and a few days after this in a dinner with Lazarus, his family and Mary Magdalene and Judas Iscariot are present, is where the Passion begins Christ, at this time makes another announcement of his death and resurrection, and in the passage of the Anointing reference to the murmuring of Judas based on greed that premoniza subsequent betrayal ago.

On this day processions can be found allude to various passages of Holy Week, depending on the city where we are, but the most common to go on this day are the processions of ECCE-HOMO, the Prayer in the Garden ...

Sevilla are very popular in the Vera + Cruz, Santa Genoveva, Kiss of Judas, the Brotherhood of the Museum, which depart on this day.

The Seville procession Vera + Cruz, in particular, is of the oldest, is from 1448, the procession consists of two steps, one is the Cristo de la Vera Cruz + whose size dating from the sixteenth century by a sculptor anonymous ... and the other step is the Virgin of Sorrows Antonio Illanes.

Apart from Seville processions are the most recognized as the Seville Holy Week is a very important reference of this celebration, Easter Monday is the day of "Lord of Málaga", so we can find the procession of Our Lord Captive Jesus.

In Malaga procession Captive we see an image in which mother and son are on the same throne and impressive mountain of red carnations (for Christ) and white (for Virgin) that is formed in front of the images. Behind the throne of Christ parade Infantry Regiments of Regular Forces Melilla.

As this drags christ thousands of promises, many people do not expect to see the virgin but worth waiting to see how pretty the brotherhood leaves for the day.

Another of the most popular processions in Málaga this day is the Christ of the Gypsies. This is one of the oldest guilds, was formerly one of the last to leave and is now the first to depart. In Málaga Christ affectionately call this the "Senor Manuel". Gypsies feels great devotion to the singing and dancing that accompanies a bound to a column with his virgin christ image. The throne is one of the traditional Malaga called "spool throne."