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Easter Saturday

Los Servitas

Los Dolores Chapel
2 floats: First: The Virgin Mary holding Jesus at the foot of the cross. Second: Our Lady of Sorrows.
Founded: 1696
Nazarenos: about 400
Time Fraternity takes to go by: 45 mins.

 

 

 

La Trinidad

The Trinity Church
3 floats. First: Allegoric float of the Sacred Decree of the Trinity. Second: Christ taken down off the cross by the Holy Men. Third: Our Lady of Hope.
Founded: 1696
Nazarenos: about 900
Time Fraternity takes to go by: 70 mins.

 

 

 

El Santo Entierro Grande

(The Big Funeral (burial), Only in the year 2004, and celebrated in the century XX in commemoration of notable dates or by the importance for the city or the confraternities.)

Only in nine occasions we have been able to contemplate the Big Funeral retinue, in which, apart from the three floats that form this fraternity, many others are incorporated to form Christ's Passion chronologically. In the Holy Week of 2004, Seville celebrated the IV Century of the March of the Fraternities to the Cathedral with a Great procession (habitually are 3 floats only).

St. Gregorio's Church. 15 floats.


1.- Allegoric float of the triumph of the cross over death.
2.- Jesus on donkey back entering Jerusalem
3.- Jesus praying comforted by an Angel, while the apostles sleep under an olive tree
4.- Jesus Christ with Caiphas in the presence of Anas
5.- Christ our Lord of Silence with his hands tied in the presence of Herod
6.- Christ having been crowned with thorns by two executioners and a roman soldier
7.- Christ carrying the cross
8.- Christ third fall carrying the cross aided by the cirenian.
9.- Christ of the seven words on the cross
10.- Chris of Mercy, crucified with the Virgin praying bellow the cross.
11.- Good Death´s Christ crucified
12.- Christ dead on the cross between the two thieves.
13.- Jesus is taken down off the cross by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea on ladders
14.- Christ dead lying in a glass coffin.
15.- Holy Mary of Villaviciosa surrounded by St. John, the three Mary's and the Holy Men.

Founded: Mid XVI century
Nazarenos: about 300 (take representations of others Fraternities)
Time Fraternity takes to go by: 2 hours.

La Soledad

San Lorenzo Parish
1 float only: Our Lady of Solitude at the foot of the cross.
Founded: Mid XVI century
Nazarenos: about 800
Time Fraternity takes to go by: 50 mins.

 

 

 

 

Easter Sunday

La Resurrección

Santa Marina Church
2 floats. First: Christ at the moment of the Resurrection leaving the tomb in the presence of an angel. Second: Or Lady of the Dawn
Founded: 1972
Nazarenos: about 400
Time Fraternity takes to go by: 40 mins.

 

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