Under the rain of this Good Friday, the image of Holy Christ Recumbent, “Christ of the Poor”started at 3 p.m. It is accompanied by the consecrated image of the Virgin of Solitude to tour the streets of zones 1 and 3 of the capital.
The processional procession will last 11 hours and will pass in front of the Municipality of Guatemala, the General Cemetery, the San Juan de Dios General Hospital, the Metropolitan Cathedral, Concordia Park and will return to the Our Lady of Remedies Parish, El Calvario temple, according to the program.
Entry is expected to be in the early hours of this Saturday, April 4, at 2:15 a.m.
During the tour, more than 60 funeral marches will be heard, such as Penitence, At the Feet of the Master, Christ the King, Spiritual Flower, Silence, In Memoria, La Ganadera and Your Last Look.
With the first drops of rain in the afternoon, the images of the Holy Recumbent Christ and the Virgin of Soledad were covered with transparent plastic to protect them and continue with the processional procession.
History
The Holy Christ Recumbent, “Christ of the Poor”, received veneration in the El Calvario temple in the city of Santiago de Guatemala. This image, venerated by Holy Brother Pedro de Betancur, was located in the final chapel of the Via Crucis in 1667.
In 1779, the Entombed was moved to the Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción and located in a straw ranch in the area of the current Concordia Park. A document from 1657, found inside a Crucified Christ from El Calvario in Antiquity, indicates that this and a “Holy Sepulcher” (1643) are works of the sculptor Pedro de la Rosa, who would be Pedro de Mendoza, according to the architect Mario Ubico Calderón.
It was on Good Friday, April 4, 1896, when this image went out in procession for the first time in Guatemala City.
