The document is a webquest about Semana Santa, or Holy Week, celebrations in Spain. It provides information about the religious origins and traditions of Semana Santa observed in Seville, Spain. Specifically, it details the processions led by brotherhoods of Nazarenos dressed in robes and pointed hoods, carrying pasos (floats) bearing sculptures depicting scenes of Christ's passion and the Virgin Mary. It describes the roles of costaleros who carry the floats and the traditional clothing worn by participants. The responses convey the solemn and reverent atmosphere of the multisecular tradition.

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Answer the following questions in English.
Preset:
1. What is the origin of the holiday known as Easter?
2. What do people do here to celebrate Easter? (secular and religious)
Go to church. Easter Egg Hunts. Dress up as Rabbits.
3. What do you know about how it is celebrated in Spain?
People go crazy
Now answer these specific questions by reading at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semana_Santa_en_Sevilla
4. What does Semana Santa mean?
Holy Week
5. When is it?
It is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter
6. Where are they going and why?
They are going to the city streets to parade around and have fun
7. What are brotherhoods and what is their purpose?
Catholic laypersons organized for the purpose of performing public acts of religion. They
do the day-to-day work in preparation for the processions, also undertake many other
self-regulated religious activities, and charitable and community work.
8. What happens during Semana Santa?
Members precede the pasos
9. Who are Nazarenos and how are they dressed?
They are dressed in a habit and with the distinctive pointed hood, they and holding long
wax candles.
10. What is at the beginning of the processions? In the middle?
The March, The paso, The Music, The Crowd, and the La Carrera Oficia
11. What is a Paso?
An image or set of images set atop a movable float of wood.
12. What are 3 possible pasos? How old are some of them?
a sculpted scene of the Passion, or an allegorical scene, known as a misterio (mystery);
the second is an image of Christ; and the third an image of the suffering Blessed Virgin
Mary, known as a dolorosa. Some as old as the 16th Century.
13. Who are costaleros and what do they do?

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A team of men who support the beams upon their shoulders and necks, lift, move and
lower the paso.
14. What is the traditional dress of women for this? for men?
La Mantilla for the women and the men wear a dark suit, black necktie and shoes.
15. How do people behave as the processions go past?
They are mostly in silence. They behave normally.
Watch these slide shows at flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=semana+santa
16. What is your impression and why? (3-4 thoughtful sentences with insight)
This is something that the spanish people take very serious. They all seem very happy
to be part of this ceremony. To me, it seems that easter is an very important holiday is
spain.
Children and Easter
17. What are cascarones?
hollow eggs with filling
18. In which countries are they played with?
Mexico and the United States and Italy
19. How are you to break them?
You throw them
20. Why do you break them?
The men would try to attract women by throwing them
¡Felices Pascuas!

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