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The colonial city will be filled again with joy, fervor and deep devotion during the fifth week of Lent, when processional tours transform their streets into scenarios of living faith. In this guide you will find the details of each tour.
Antigua Guatemala honors his spiritual inheritance with a unique celebration, where two patrimonies of humanity converge: the city and its processional tradition.
During the fifth week of Lentthe colonial city becomes an outdoor sanctuary. Its cobbled streets become passages of living faith, where The ephemeral art of carpetsthe solemn echoes of The procession marchesSY the purple color that characterizes the time They merge with the beauty of Jacarandas in flower and the Chorozo’s penetrating aromas.
It is a time when devotion is manifested in each step of courtship, in each musical note and in Each stained sawdust stroke. Antigua Guatemala not only recalls its history: it revives it with fervor and shares it with the world as a testimony of its spiritual identity.
At the gates of the Easter weekthe processional steps summon believers, tourists and lovers of tradition to participate in one of the deepest expressions of spirituality of the country. In this guide we present the scheduled tours, from Friday 4 to Sunday, April 6.
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Processional tours of the fourth weekend of Lent
The processions that will mark this celebration will begin on Thursday, April 3 and will run until Sunday, April 6, filling the streets of Antigua Guatemala with faith and recollection during the penultimate week of Lent.
Fifth Friday of Lent – April 4
Risen Jesus’ Velation
- Place: San Pedro Church (Social Works)
- Hours: from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
VELATION OF JESUS NAZARENO OF THE FALL
- Place: San Bartolomé Becerra Temple
- Schedule: From 7 to 00 on Saturday, April 5
VELATION OF JESUS NAZARENO
- Place: ERMITA DE SANTA LUCÍA
- Hours: from 7.30 to 23 hours
Prior to the second Sunday of Lent in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. The relationship of the Nazarene Jesus of the Church of Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano was made; whose procession will leave on Sunday, March 5. Photo Press Free (Juan Diego Gonzales)
Fifth Saturday of Lent – April 5
Velation of the Virgen de Dolores
- Place: Church of San Francisco el Grande
- Hours: from 6.30 to 23 hours
Burned Jesus’
- Place: Church of San José Cathedral
- Hours: from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Burned Jesus’
- Place: Merced Church
- Schedule: From 8 to 18 hours
VELATION OF THE CHRIST OF MERCICORDIES
- Place: School of Christ
- Hours: from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Risen Jesus’ Velation
- Place: San Pedro Church (Social Works)
- Hours: from 8 to 23.30 hours
Jesus Child procession
- Place: San José Cathedral
- Temple exit: 10 hours
- Entrance to the temple: 12 hours
Children’s Replicas Procession
- Place: School of Christ
- Temple exit: 16 hours
- Entrance to the temple: 20 hours
Fifth Sunday of Lent – April 6
JESUS DE LA Esperanza
- Place: Santa Lucia hermitage
- Hours: 5 to 12 hours
Risen Jesus’ Velation
- Place: San Pedro Church (Social Works), 6th. Oriente Street No. 20, Antigua Guatemala
- Hours: from 8 to 23.30 hours
Procession of the consecrated image of Jesus Nazareno of the fall
- Place: San Bartolomé Becerra Temple, Antigua Guatemala
- Temple exit: 3 hours
- Entrance to the temple: 0.30 hours on Monday, April 7
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