PROCESSION OF THE VERA CRUZ - VILLAFÁFILA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Processed from the fifteenth century, until 1880, in 2010 it was recovered by the Pro-Holy Week Board of Villafáfila.

Holy Thursday night.

With start and finish in the church of Santa María del Moral.

Procession: Christ of the True Cross.

Route: Street, Rejadarada, San Andrés, Sacramento, Botica, Rejadarada.

I pray next to the old place of the church of San Andrés (today the old cemetery) which was next to the Ermita de la Vera Cruz where the Brotherhood and the Christ were located.

The first references we have are from the year 1490 of the Brotherhood La de la Vera Cruz, which was located in the hermitage of Vera Cruz, it was near the church of San Andrés, and it also belonged to it until 1642 , when it was suppressed as the church of San Andrés , remaining as annexed to the church of San Pedro this became dependent on her, but the brotherhood based in the hermitage continued, it carried out the "Procession of the True Cross or the Race" it left the night of Holy Thursday, the brotherhoods were of two classes: the light, and blood, or, of discipline. They all wore a white tunic or shirt and a hood or hood; the light ones carrying a candle and the second ones disciplining themselves during the procession, there were also women cofrades in 1717 there were 45, although What type is not specified . In 1805 the hermitage of Vera Cruz was demolished and the Christ was transferred to the church of San Pedro, from which the pre-session would come from that moment.  After the procession, the "Parva" consisting of cakes and wine was given The rites and penances that took place throughout the night of Holy Thursday that made a large number of people stay awake, who made the vigil more bearable with a few drinks of wine, would be the origin of the custom of making lemonade and staying whole the night of revelry that the young people of Villafáfila have followed since time immemorial. This brotherhood disappeared in 1880 and with it the procession. This procession was recovered in 2010 by the Junta Pro-Semana Santa de Villafáfila, trying to make a similarity with the forms of that time, in addition to adding going out dressed in the Castilian cape, and recovering the Parva, giving lemonade and pasta.


Author, photography, transcription and montage:

Jose Luis Dominguez Martinez.

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