Miguel is a member of a brotherhood in Spain that celebrates Holy Week. His brotherhood parades religious floats and statues through the streets, with different brotherhoods playing drums and bugles. The people in Andalucia particularly fervently celebrate Holy Week and cry if the processions are cancelled due to rain. Miguel's brotherhood has one of the oldest and most expensive statues in Logroño, depicting Mary Magdalene from the 16th century.

1. Miguel apellaniz
We usually celebrate the
Holy Week in March or
April, 40 days after
Carnival and
commemorate the death
and resurrection of Jesus.

2.  We take out religious floats with statues
of saints and go through the streets, and
the members of the different lay
brotherhoods play drums and some play
the bugle, too.

3.  In Andalucia, in the South of Spain, the
people celebrate the Holy Week more
fervently and the public even cries if their
saints can´t parade because it’s raining.

4.  Miguel is member of the brotherhood of
Mary Magdalene. Its float has a statue of
the sixteen century. It is the most
expensive and old statue of Logroño.

5.  There are other brotherhoods, like the
brotherhood of the Nazarene and their
float has a statue of Christ and he carries a
big, wooden crucifix.

6.  The most showy is the float of the Lady of
Sorrow, a virgin with a beautiful dress. Her
heart has seven knives.

7.  Miguel’s brotherhood practices for the
processions in Oyon, a small village near
Logroño, our town, but the people can’t
see them rehearse.

8.  His favourite procession is on Maundy Thursday
because his brotherhood organizes it. Its name is the
Silence and Light Procession and it is at night.

9.  We also play a Via Crucis with different
moments of Jesus Passion.

10.  The longest procession is on Good Friday
and it is four hours long.
 The first procession is on Palm Sunday
and the last is on Easter Sunday, the day
when Jesus resurrected.