The document describes the traditions and processions of Holy Week in Cuenca, Spain. It outlines the different brotherhoods that participate each day, describing their robes, hoods, and tunics of different colors and what they carry. The processions commemorate events from Palm Sunday through Jesus' crucifixion and burial on Good Friday.
1. HOLY WEEK IN
CUENCA
How they get dressed and how
they are called!
Workshop on floating paint
IES ALFONSO VIII
Cuenca (Spain)
2. PALM SUNDAY
• Jesus’s triumphal entry
into Jerusalem and the
Virgin of Hope
• Red hood, white tunic and
wine coloured sash. They
carry candles.
3. HOLY MONDAY
• Cristo de la Vera Cruz
• Black Hood, black tunic and
white rope with tassels.
They carry candles.
4. HOLY TUESDAY
• Saint John the Baptist
• White hood, purple tunic
and white sash. They carry
lampshades.
5. HOLY TUESDAY
• The Baptist of Our
Lord Jesuchrist
• Purple hood, white tunic
and purple sash. They carry
lampsades
6. HOLY TUESDAY
• María Magdalena
• Old gold hood, purple tunic
and yellow rope with
yellow tassels. They carry
lampshades.
7. HOLY TUESDAY
• Jesus de Medinaceli
• Wine hood, purple tunic
and yellow rope with
yellow tassels. They carry
lampshades.
8. HOLY TUESDAY
• The Hope Virgin
• Green hood, white tunic
and green rope with green
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
9. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• Holly Supper
• White hood, white tunic
and wine coloured sash.
They carry lampshades.
10. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• Jesus praying at the
olives’ garden
• White hood, purple tunic
and white rope whith
purple tassels. They carry
lampshides.
11. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• Jesus’ arrest
• White hood, white tunic
and black sash. They carry
lampshides.
12. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• St. Peter the apostle
• Red hood, white tunic and
red rope with red tassels.
They carry candles.
13. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• St. Peter’s denial
• White hood, purple tunic
and white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
14. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• St. Michael’s Ecce-
Homo
• White hood, red tunic and
white sash. They carry
lampshades.
15. HOLY WEDNESDAY
• St. John and the
sadness Virgin
• White hood, blue tunic and
red sash. They carry
lampshades.
16. HOLY THURSDAY
• Jesus praying at the
olives’ garden
• Wine hood, purple tunic
and white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
17. HOLY THURSDAY
• Jesus tied to the
column
• White hood, purple tunic
and white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
18. HOLY THURSDAY
• Jesus with the cane
• Wine coloured hood, wine
coloured tunic and brown
sash. They carry
lampshades with a cane.
19. HOLY THURSDAY
• St. Gil’s Ecce-Hommo
• Red hood, purple tunic and
yellow sash. They carry
lampshades.
20. HOLY THURSDAY
• Jesus the fallen and the
Veronica
• Beige hood, purple tunic
and beige sash. They carry
lampshades.
21. HOLY THURSDAY
• Jesus the Nazarene of
the bridge
• Purple hood, purple tunic
and yellow rope with
yellow tassels. They carry
lampshades.
22. HOLY THURSDAY
• The Solitud Virgin
• Black hood, purple tunic
and white rope with purple
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
23. HOLY FRIDAY. Camino del
Calvario
• Jesus the Nazaret of
the Saviour
• Purple hood, purple tunic
and yellow rope with
yellow tassels. They carry
lampshades.
24. HOLY FRIDAY. Camino del
Calvario
• St. Joan the Evangelist
• Green velvet hood, purple
tunic and green sash. They
carry lampshades.
25. HOLY FRIDAY. Camino del
Calvario
• The Solitud Virgin of
St. Agustin
• Black hood, purple tunic
and white rope with purple
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
26. HOLY FRIDAY. En el Calvario
• La exaltación
• Wine coloured hood, beige
tunic and wine coloured
sash. They carry
lampshades.
27. HOLY FRIDAY. En el Calvario
• The agony Christ
• Red hood, yellow mustard
tunic and red sash. They
carry lampshades.
28. HOLY FRIDAY. En el Calvario
• The Mirror Christ
• Old gold hood, purple tunic
and yellow rope with
yellow tassels. They carry
lampshades.
29. HOLY FRIDAY. En el Calvario
• El Descendimiento
• Black hood, black tunic and
white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
30. HOLY FRIDAY. En el Calvario
• La Virgen de las
Angustias
• Black hood, purple tunic
and black sash. They carry
lampshades.
31. HOLY FRIDAY. Santo Entierro
• Jerusalem nude cross
• White hood, brown tunic
and white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.
32. HOLY FRIDAY. Santo Entierro
• Cristo Yacente
• White hood, black tunic
and white rope with white
tassels. They carry
lampshades.