Then leave some documents I have and that speaks of our Easter Tarifa.
EASTER Tarifeño By: Francisco Javier Teran Reyes, Historian.
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is difficult to know where the legend ends and when the story begins. This premise as used when a researcher hampered by the lack of what has come to be known statements, excluding the oral course, must serve at least in a place like Tarifa, while retaining traces and testimonies of the past, has also been shrouded in legend since ancient times.
New image of Cristo del Consuelo in her old neighborhood of the Holy Trinity.
A place bathed by two seas, one Mediterranean, the cradle of civilization and Christianity, the other the majestic Atlantic, witnessed the spread of the faith in the lands overseas. A neighborhood place where Africa is not only apparent but real, visual.
Such a place could be defined as an enigmatic, attractive and perhaps taboo, shelter nymphs, witches and even gods.
This is seen by the Greeks, who placed here his myths, the Phoenicians and later the Romans went further: for them the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar, were in their headlands and islands, sanctuaries of gods protectors of seafarers. There
raised temples and altars, which were later Christianized into mosques and then converted back to Christianity after 1292.
Such is the case of Santa Maria and Santiago, early Christian churches of the city conquered and germ nuclei of Holy Week and Tarifa in the early days of the seventeenth century, when the image of Jesus Nazareth, a protector of sailors Tarifa, began to explore the intricate winding streets of the old Arab medina shoulders of his brethren.
But before the legend ever-present, made an appearance again. It was the sixteenth century and Christ came from the sea.
is said that one morning, mid-century, the astonished eyes of several locals watched the amazing spectacle of the image of a crucified and rocked by the waves approaching the beach near the city. Collected and transferred to the city, was deposited in the convent of the Trinitarian Fathers. He received the veneration of Tarifa and dedicated to Santo Cristo Convent. Transferred in 1771 to the neighboring parish of San Francisco, will change its invocation by the Santo Cristo del Consuelo.
Both Nazareth and Consuelo, be the focus of Easter Tarifa, the oldest guilds, now existing, and the most revered images along with the Patron of the town, Our Lady of Light.
THE NAME OF MARY
Rate devotion shines out into the streets when the patron saint, Our Lady of Light. We
pronounced for the first time the name of Mary under her title of Light, a dedication that is the essence of the religious beliefs of Tarifa and whose worship is lost in the late Middle Ages, a time that where fantasy, myth and faith were still united in the human heart. But this time the myth becomes chronic and so in writing addressed to Pope Benedict XIV soliciting indulgences for the Brothers of the fraternity (it was the year 1586) the brothers invoked that:
"Given by the Blessed Virgin Mistress of Light , whose name was given by those people to cast glare on the Christian army in the battle which gave the king of Africa (Batalla del Salado, the year of 1340), which were killed over a hundred thousand Africans, for what that Given such a miracle did in that place, site or place, far from the city about four miles, a church in honor of Blessed Virgin that he has done and continually does miracles releasing both citizens and foreigners from the bondage of Africans " .
image devotion reached such proportions that council held on January 16, 1750 received the title of Patron of the city and country of Tarifa.
From the forties, the likes of Our Lady of Sorrows accompanying Santo Cristo de la Salud in Penitence Station.
However, in the beginning of the processions of Holy Week Tarifa, Mary is not light but Loneliness and pain.
loneliness and pain, two titles and two sentiments that are reflected in the faces of two beautiful statues of Our Lady.
Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, the old parish church of Santa Maria "old" size dating to the late seventeenth century, which had its own guild at least halfway through the next century, and Our Lady of Sorrows of San Francisco , beautiful eighteenth-century baroque carving and brought to Tarifa from Malaga by Francisco Chico and Cardenas, a relative of the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Seville, who also had their own guild in the mid eighteenth century, both with parallels that go beyond mere coincidences that seem to relive those moments when a mother is the Son who bears on his shoulders the Cross of the sins of the world and it will die.
While Maria de la Soledad was Jesus of Nazareth in a street called Bitterness, old part of a city that was there a more Eastern European, Maria de los Dolores watched with eyes swollen with bitterness, perhaps, therefore, its present name-the death of a child who came to give comfort to the world. MEMORIES
The Cristo de la Salud, walking our streets in the Cross penitential.
Whenever we talk of history, discussion takes the opinion of certain groups of people who speak of a history with a capital, defined as official, scientific and a history minor, whose field of action would be usual, everyday, even anecdotal.
Well, the text now begins, contains certain paragraphs that can be considered as belonging to a lower story, a story that is not reflected in the books chapter of the fraternity, but those stored in its memory before We received the label of brotherhood.
Thanks to them we keep the memory of that decuria Roman legionaries, who earlier this century as a picket guarding the processional thrones Holy Thursday and the Guard of Honour mounted before the tabernacle of the church of San Mateo and all under the watchful eye of her "master" head Agustín Pizarro.
Legionaries, Chargers and brothers in general met in a bar in the traditional district of Azogues, whose owner, John Romero, could be considered as a large chapel. The local brotherhood processions breathed such an atmosphere that was popularly known as "vestry."
El Cristo de la Salud, now in its step touring the old quarter of the quicksilver.
memories In this section we can not forget the names of some people whose work has been significant and important in life their respective brotherhoods as Ferrer Antonio Villanueva, the first Brother of the Holy Christ of Health. Francisco Terán Fernández, reorganizing the Venerable Brotherhood of Santo Cristo del Consuelo. And more recently José Pérez Cano, galvanizing momentum brotherhood processions of young members of the Brotherhood of Borriquita and the Youth Association of Our Lady of Peace. We must also make mention of Carlos Romero Romero, a great devotee and brother of Jesus and Ransomed Captive (Medinaceli).
symbolizes the image of Medinaceli, somehow, the recovery of the Holy Week of Tarifa. But
especially these lines to pay taxes worth a fitting tribute to someone who is not even a memory, but one of the pillars of the Easter Mayor Tarifa. I mean Rondón Sebastian Guerrero, brothers teacher, a man of exemplary Christian behavior and safeguard the artistic treasures of Tarifa deposited in the church of San Mateo.
In this attempt to keep track into oblivion and missing names and experiences, we pause to mention names of images that no longer carry out processions: San Juan, Veronica, Soledad, lost in the mists of history, and other missing most recently as the cases of Nuestro Padre Jesus of Mercy and the Holy Christ of Charity.
The first, popularly known as the Christ Bound to the pillar, is linked to the Youth Association of the Virgin of Peace and was made by sculptor Manuel Reina Tarifa in the late fifties. Marched on four occasions in the Passion Week and now hopes the formation of a governing board that makes you get out of the oyster.
The second made its Good Friday procession at the great procession of the Santo Entierro.
But it's back to the call history with a capital and our goal from now will evoke the lives of two religious buildings, which printed in the spirit of Tarifa certain key features to understand some aspects of our religiosity.
The oldest of the confraternities of Tarifa, the Confraternity of Our real. Padre Jesus Nazareno.
nearly a century ago that the image of Jesus of Nazareth left his church of Santiago. A unique religious building, which could be classified as gothic parties still exist, but where you feel the imprint of Mudejar artisans.
began to erect the temple presumably in the fourteenth century in the place where most researchers place the entrance of the English troops of Sancho IV the Brave in the city (specifically on September 21, 1292) and so attested a plaque commemorating the event saying
"On September 21, 1292 reign in Spain Don Sancho el Bravo earned this city from the Moors by this flap this site qe This and was called Santiago and stay on it for their governor Don Rodrigo de Mendoza Master of Calatrava. "
The veneration of the image of the Nazarene led the church and even the same neighborhood were known since the eighteenth century and Jesus, the whole neighborhood responded to the nomenclature of the Nazarene worship and procession. Sufficient to cite the names of God's Love, Sorrow, Grief, Loss, San Juan, Patio of Veronica.
Abandoned early in the century of its past glory, the church retains only Gothic chapel and a steeple Mudejar, which still stands proud-on-blue waters of the Straits. Intimately bound
Santiago is the oldest church in the city, Santa Maria, a former Arab mosque attached to the walls of the old castle Caliphate, raised in times of Abderrahman III.
The Borriquita entering the walled Moorish arch through the Puerta de Jerez.
of its Islamic past Only four columns on the sides of the chancel arch. Reformed
in the eighteenth century, housed in interior art treasures such as the sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary and mentioned so many times of Solitude.
also abandoned earlier this century, now part of the monuments of the Castle of Guzman.
And to conclude this journey into the past, nothing better than a chronicle of a procession registered in our parish archives.
"In the year to January 2 (1702), was the avenue that has experienced more water came to the convent of the Holy Trinity. Then it rained in three months. It did great penance. It was brought to Our Lady of Light. He took a night the Convent of the Holy Christ brought to the greater church. It was there praying and sermon. After another day, there was a general procession to Our Lady of Light and was brought to Jesus of Nazareth and in the procession were barefoot all priests and their imitation all neighbors with penance and all discovered large faces. " (Book XII of San Mateo Baptisms AP)
THIS (BULLETIN Gesamani Easter 2010) Francisco Javier Reyes Terán
Today, the processions have abandoned their first tour of the old Medina and the Muslim-jara. They do still within the city walls, but in an urban area of \u200b\u200bChristian origins. Magnificent
together they form the beautiful Virgin of Our Lady of Peace, the pallium and mantle richly embroidered and silver vents.
It highlights two great religious buildings, the parish churches of San Francisco and San Mateo, as mentioned above.
San Francisco is small, charming. Its age is uncertain. There are documents relating to it dating back to 1520. The present mill dates from the late eighteenth century, when it was almost entirely rebuilt. Jewelry has great value as an Immaculate Conception of the mid-sixteenth century, the work of Hernando de Uceda.
this church procession made its exit following fraternities and sororities: Brotherhood of Jesus
Entry into Jerusalem and Benjamin Court, which makes his show to the afternoon of Palm Sunday. And speaking of Palm Sunday is it for children, palms, white robes, hopes and joys and all summarized in the vision of the group of figures representing Christ entering the Holy City. But the joy of infants not shaken both the heart and the vision of "passing" under the Moorish arch of the Puerta de Jerez, as if for a moment we should go to another place and time.
recently marched behind a figure of the Virgin, which in that day could not get another name María de la Paz. But the Virgin of Peace changed the palms and the joy found in the early hours of Thursday evening, Good Friday with an image of the Nazarene, who walks toward death before the neoclassical portico of San Mateo.
But undoubtedly the most important day for this old temple is the procession of the largest of its jewels: Holy Wednesday and silence: Parade the Consuelo. Tears comfort and walk to the spiritual exercise of the appointment, the appointment with the town of Tarifa. It is ten o'clock at night and Official Race is in darkness. Only highlights the marvelous image of the Crucified One of San Francisco and the people listen carefully to the words that he addressed the priest sermon.
Jesus in agony in the Garden reflects peace and serenity in the face.
of those words is seen year after year the front of the cathedral parish of San Mateo.
Church built in the early sixteenth century at the expense of the Marquis of Tarifa Fabrique Enrique de Rivera, in Gothic style, is known as the small Cathedral del Campo de Gibraltar, just qualifying for the grandeur of the temple.
From it made its exit procession the following "steps" and images:
Palm Sunday. The last rays of sunshine appear brown stones neoclassical facade. The Agony in the Garden begins its journey, a prelude to the Passion. The sculpture reflects the Agony inside of a man who sees God made near the time of death.
Behind the image of the captive, the "Medinaceli" of the people. His picture is not dithering, but also conveys serenity, acceptance of the fact of life and of our own destiny and if either does not have the history and experiences of other fraternities, does have the weight of the devotion of a people who followed in droves.
arrives on Easter Tuesday and the picture given by one Juan Martinez Montanes and others to Juan de Mesa, the procession makes its way. Four lanterns light the figure of the Crucified One of the old sacristy. El Cristo de la Salud is on the streets and impressive arms drop draws on the towers of the Castle of Guzman. Accompanied
SALUS Vestre EGO SUM is the Queen of the "steps", the "steps" pallium, Our Lady of Sorrows, beautiful image of the late nineteenth century, beauty among beauties. Most would call her Beauty.
Maundy Thursday, and the history goes back the town of Tarifa. Jesus Nazareno de San Mateo out to "find" not only a mother but also the people that pays reverence and worship.
finally Friday, and before us the pathetic funeral: God is dead. The good soul of Joseph of Arimathea has buried the dead body of Jesus, Holy grave will be after, the backbone of our religion, he was a witness of God's victory over death. It is the passage of the Holy Sepulchre, but before the pathos reaches extreme levels before the image of Mary of Sorrows, who suffers tremendous pain to collect their dead child in his arms.
Passage of Our Lady of Sorrows opens the official mourning.
All this contrasts with an image of Our Lady of Hope, which as a beam points at dawn on Easter Sunday.
CULTS
Easter Tarifa has, like many other localities in Andalusia, a prologue Lent, in which the various guilds and brotherhoods carry out their internal worship and acts of reflection and penitence closely related to us as brothers.
They realized we separate the inside of the temple, such as machinery and Septenary, and the Via Crucis that develop in the streets near the parishes.
Holy Sepulchre, sculpture of the late nineteenth century.
Regarding the former, the Cristo de Medinaceli Triduum, which begins the first Friday of March, prefaces the cycle continues in the third week of Lent with Pentads in honor of Cristo del Consuelo, and finally with the Septenary Our Lady of Sorrows.
The second movement begins with the Santo Cristo del Consuelo from the chapel to the altar and ending with Penance Stations of the Cross Good Friday at noon, the entire fee makes the exercise of the seven words accompanying the image of Santo Cristo de la Salud, carried on the shoulders of their brothers. Between the two acts and at the initiative of the Local Board of Fraternities and Guilds is made a new Way of the Cross on the third Saturday of Lent. The images that have been made in recent years have been Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of Medinaceli. Captive
Jesus traveled places where they do their penitential station the other brotherhoods, old places and streets adjoining the main church San Mateo.
With Jesus Nazareno turned to walk the old streets and intricate corners of his old neighborhood to be brought to the door of their ancient temple, now almost a heap of ruins-filled moment of joy to those who accompanied him. The Sovereign again have the city at his feet from his vantage point of the strait.
However, the key moments in Tarifa cults are described and the Seven Words and Sermons of the Rendezvous and the Encounter.
The mere description of these events can take away something they really are very essential parts of our religious faith.
CORNERS, costaleros and MANTILLAS
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Corners are almost monumental street in Tarifa. They observed the traces of Islamic urbanism: narrow streets and intricate, with white walls sometimes hidden works of great artistic value and other materials poor folk. The lime, as in other places, acts as a uniform.
next to white, green vegetation, cultivated in pots and borders, forming a unique whole.
is in this context that run our processions, in the shadow of the battlements of the castle walls.
The beautiful image of Our Lady of Tears is the work of local carver Manuel Reina.
And within it there are places travel where the shows look more brilliantly. Narrow streets like the Holy Trinity or bend like Maria Antonia Toledo witness the immense sacrifice of the bearers and the expertise of the supervisors or prosecutors. Only the Official Race, the wide, straight road, it offers certain limited securities, because all the people throng to watch it and comment on the movements of some and the leadership of others.
Across the ancient river that divided the city into two, the neighborhood area of \u200b\u200bAzogues, an old Muslim suburb in the heart of the existing perimeter wall, it also witnessed the prowess of these men as they pass through the San Mateo, with its central bend.
On a different level, other attractive places are the parades pass before Almedina Street, with its beautiful and newly restored Gothic door in front of goal Mudejar Puerta de Jerez. At these points, porters and bearers rest of the efforts of the most difficult of the course or are ready to save.
costaleros Chargers ... And in Tarifa there are two ways of carrying the steps. Both groups are professionals, teachers of art that should not disappear.
Joining them were born in the last few years a movement towards the formation of bands of brothers bearers, the first of which has been built around the image of Jesus the Entry into Jerusalem. Formerly
this image, and when it was accompanied by that of Our Lady of Peace, carried in procession dressed young Tarifa blanket.
Women Tarifa, famed since antiquity beautiful, classic dress with panache English garment, but reserved especially for the night of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. On the last day it is customary for at least a hundred of them accompanied by an exclusive image of Our Lady of Hope, passing constiruir not just part of the show but an aesthetic of great traditional value.
is difficult to know where the legend ends and when the story begins. This premise as used when a researcher hampered by the lack of what has come to be known statements, excluding the oral course, must serve at least in a place like Tarifa, while retaining traces and testimonies of the past, has also been shrouded in legend since ancient times.
New image of Cristo del Consuelo in her old neighborhood of the Holy Trinity.
A place bathed by two seas, one Mediterranean, the cradle of civilization and Christianity, the other the majestic Atlantic, witnessed the spread of the faith in the lands overseas. A neighborhood place where Africa is not only apparent but real, visual.
Such a place could be defined as an enigmatic, attractive and perhaps taboo, shelter nymphs, witches and even gods.
This is seen by the Greeks, who placed here his myths, the Phoenicians and later the Romans went further: for them the shores of the Strait of Gibraltar, were in their headlands and islands, sanctuaries of gods protectors of seafarers. There
raised temples and altars, which were later Christianized into mosques and then converted back to Christianity after 1292.
Such is the case of Santa Maria and Santiago, early Christian churches of the city conquered and germ nuclei of Holy Week and Tarifa in the early days of the seventeenth century, when the image of Jesus Nazareth, a protector of sailors Tarifa, began to explore the intricate winding streets of the old Arab medina shoulders of his brethren.
But before the legend ever-present, made an appearance again. It was the sixteenth century and Christ came from the sea.
is said that one morning, mid-century, the astonished eyes of several locals watched the amazing spectacle of the image of a crucified and rocked by the waves approaching the beach near the city. Collected and transferred to the city, was deposited in the convent of the Trinitarian Fathers. He received the veneration of Tarifa and dedicated to Santo Cristo Convent. Transferred in 1771 to the neighboring parish of San Francisco, will change its invocation by the Santo Cristo del Consuelo.
Both Nazareth and Consuelo, be the focus of Easter Tarifa, the oldest guilds, now existing, and the most revered images along with the Patron of the town, Our Lady of Light.
THE NAME OF MARY
Rate devotion shines out into the streets when the patron saint, Our Lady of Light. We
pronounced for the first time the name of Mary under her title of Light, a dedication that is the essence of the religious beliefs of Tarifa and whose worship is lost in the late Middle Ages, a time that where fantasy, myth and faith were still united in the human heart. But this time the myth becomes chronic and so in writing addressed to Pope Benedict XIV soliciting indulgences for the Brothers of the fraternity (it was the year 1586) the brothers invoked that:
"Given by the Blessed Virgin Mistress of Light , whose name was given by those people to cast glare on the Christian army in the battle which gave the king of Africa (Batalla del Salado, the year of 1340), which were killed over a hundred thousand Africans, for what that Given such a miracle did in that place, site or place, far from the city about four miles, a church in honor of Blessed Virgin that he has done and continually does miracles releasing both citizens and foreigners from the bondage of Africans " .
image devotion reached such proportions that council held on January 16, 1750 received the title of Patron of the city and country of Tarifa.
From the forties, the likes of Our Lady of Sorrows accompanying Santo Cristo de la Salud in Penitence Station.
However, in the beginning of the processions of Holy Week Tarifa, Mary is not light but Loneliness and pain.
loneliness and pain, two titles and two sentiments that are reflected in the faces of two beautiful statues of Our Lady.
Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, the old parish church of Santa Maria "old" size dating to the late seventeenth century, which had its own guild at least halfway through the next century, and Our Lady of Sorrows of San Francisco , beautiful eighteenth-century baroque carving and brought to Tarifa from Malaga by Francisco Chico and Cardenas, a relative of the Holy Office of the Inquisition of Seville, who also had their own guild in the mid eighteenth century, both with parallels that go beyond mere coincidences that seem to relive those moments when a mother is the Son who bears on his shoulders the Cross of the sins of the world and it will die.
While Maria de la Soledad was Jesus of Nazareth in a street called Bitterness, old part of a city that was there a more Eastern European, Maria de los Dolores watched with eyes swollen with bitterness, perhaps, therefore, its present name-the death of a child who came to give comfort to the world. MEMORIES
The Cristo de la Salud, walking our streets in the Cross penitential.
Whenever we talk of history, discussion takes the opinion of certain groups of people who speak of a history with a capital, defined as official, scientific and a history minor, whose field of action would be usual, everyday, even anecdotal.
Well, the text now begins, contains certain paragraphs that can be considered as belonging to a lower story, a story that is not reflected in the books chapter of the fraternity, but those stored in its memory before We received the label of brotherhood.
Thanks to them we keep the memory of that decuria Roman legionaries, who earlier this century as a picket guarding the processional thrones Holy Thursday and the Guard of Honour mounted before the tabernacle of the church of San Mateo and all under the watchful eye of her "master" head Agustín Pizarro.
Legionaries, Chargers and brothers in general met in a bar in the traditional district of Azogues, whose owner, John Romero, could be considered as a large chapel. The local brotherhood processions breathed such an atmosphere that was popularly known as "vestry."
El Cristo de la Salud, now in its step touring the old quarter of the quicksilver.
memories In this section we can not forget the names of some people whose work has been significant and important in life their respective brotherhoods as Ferrer Antonio Villanueva, the first Brother of the Holy Christ of Health. Francisco Terán Fernández, reorganizing the Venerable Brotherhood of Santo Cristo del Consuelo. And more recently José Pérez Cano, galvanizing momentum brotherhood processions of young members of the Brotherhood of Borriquita and the Youth Association of Our Lady of Peace. We must also make mention of Carlos Romero Romero, a great devotee and brother of Jesus and Ransomed Captive (Medinaceli).
symbolizes the image of Medinaceli, somehow, the recovery of the Holy Week of Tarifa. But
especially these lines to pay taxes worth a fitting tribute to someone who is not even a memory, but one of the pillars of the Easter Mayor Tarifa. I mean Rondón Sebastian Guerrero, brothers teacher, a man of exemplary Christian behavior and safeguard the artistic treasures of Tarifa deposited in the church of San Mateo.
In this attempt to keep track into oblivion and missing names and experiences, we pause to mention names of images that no longer carry out processions: San Juan, Veronica, Soledad, lost in the mists of history, and other missing most recently as the cases of Nuestro Padre Jesus of Mercy and the Holy Christ of Charity.
The first, popularly known as the Christ Bound to the pillar, is linked to the Youth Association of the Virgin of Peace and was made by sculptor Manuel Reina Tarifa in the late fifties. Marched on four occasions in the Passion Week and now hopes the formation of a governing board that makes you get out of the oyster.
The second made its Good Friday procession at the great procession of the Santo Entierro.
But it's back to the call history with a capital and our goal from now will evoke the lives of two religious buildings, which printed in the spirit of Tarifa certain key features to understand some aspects of our religiosity.
The oldest of the confraternities of Tarifa, the Confraternity of Our real. Padre Jesus Nazareno.
nearly a century ago that the image of Jesus of Nazareth left his church of Santiago. A unique religious building, which could be classified as gothic parties still exist, but where you feel the imprint of Mudejar artisans.
began to erect the temple presumably in the fourteenth century in the place where most researchers place the entrance of the English troops of Sancho IV the Brave in the city (specifically on September 21, 1292) and so attested a plaque commemorating the event saying
"On September 21, 1292 reign in Spain Don Sancho el Bravo earned this city from the Moors by this flap this site qe This and was called Santiago and stay on it for their governor Don Rodrigo de Mendoza Master of Calatrava. "
The veneration of the image of the Nazarene led the church and even the same neighborhood were known since the eighteenth century and Jesus, the whole neighborhood responded to the nomenclature of the Nazarene worship and procession. Sufficient to cite the names of God's Love, Sorrow, Grief, Loss, San Juan, Patio of Veronica.
Abandoned early in the century of its past glory, the church retains only Gothic chapel and a steeple Mudejar, which still stands proud-on-blue waters of the Straits. Intimately bound
Santiago is the oldest church in the city, Santa Maria, a former Arab mosque attached to the walls of the old castle Caliphate, raised in times of Abderrahman III.
The Borriquita entering the walled Moorish arch through the Puerta de Jerez.
of its Islamic past Only four columns on the sides of the chancel arch. Reformed
in the eighteenth century, housed in interior art treasures such as the sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary and mentioned so many times of Solitude.
also abandoned earlier this century, now part of the monuments of the Castle of Guzman.
And to conclude this journey into the past, nothing better than a chronicle of a procession registered in our parish archives.
"In the year to January 2 (1702), was the avenue that has experienced more water came to the convent of the Holy Trinity. Then it rained in three months. It did great penance. It was brought to Our Lady of Light. He took a night the Convent of the Holy Christ brought to the greater church. It was there praying and sermon. After another day, there was a general procession to Our Lady of Light and was brought to Jesus of Nazareth and in the procession were barefoot all priests and their imitation all neighbors with penance and all discovered large faces. " (Book XII of San Mateo Baptisms AP)
THIS (BULLETIN Gesamani Easter 2010) Francisco Javier Reyes Terán
Today, the processions have abandoned their first tour of the old Medina and the Muslim-jara. They do still within the city walls, but in an urban area of \u200b\u200bChristian origins. Magnificent
together they form the beautiful Virgin of Our Lady of Peace, the pallium and mantle richly embroidered and silver vents.
It highlights two great religious buildings, the parish churches of San Francisco and San Mateo, as mentioned above.
San Francisco is small, charming. Its age is uncertain. There are documents relating to it dating back to 1520. The present mill dates from the late eighteenth century, when it was almost entirely rebuilt. Jewelry has great value as an Immaculate Conception of the mid-sixteenth century, the work of Hernando de Uceda.
this church procession made its exit following fraternities and sororities: Brotherhood of Jesus
Entry into Jerusalem and Benjamin Court, which makes his show to the afternoon of Palm Sunday. And speaking of Palm Sunday is it for children, palms, white robes, hopes and joys and all summarized in the vision of the group of figures representing Christ entering the Holy City. But the joy of infants not shaken both the heart and the vision of "passing" under the Moorish arch of the Puerta de Jerez, as if for a moment we should go to another place and time.
recently marched behind a figure of the Virgin, which in that day could not get another name María de la Paz. But the Virgin of Peace changed the palms and the joy found in the early hours of Thursday evening, Good Friday with an image of the Nazarene, who walks toward death before the neoclassical portico of San Mateo.
But undoubtedly the most important day for this old temple is the procession of the largest of its jewels: Holy Wednesday and silence: Parade the Consuelo. Tears comfort and walk to the spiritual exercise of the appointment, the appointment with the town of Tarifa. It is ten o'clock at night and Official Race is in darkness. Only highlights the marvelous image of the Crucified One of San Francisco and the people listen carefully to the words that he addressed the priest sermon.
Jesus in agony in the Garden reflects peace and serenity in the face.
of those words is seen year after year the front of the cathedral parish of San Mateo.
Church built in the early sixteenth century at the expense of the Marquis of Tarifa Fabrique Enrique de Rivera, in Gothic style, is known as the small Cathedral del Campo de Gibraltar, just qualifying for the grandeur of the temple.
From it made its exit procession the following "steps" and images:
Palm Sunday. The last rays of sunshine appear brown stones neoclassical facade. The Agony in the Garden begins its journey, a prelude to the Passion. The sculpture reflects the Agony inside of a man who sees God made near the time of death.
Behind the image of the captive, the "Medinaceli" of the people. His picture is not dithering, but also conveys serenity, acceptance of the fact of life and of our own destiny and if either does not have the history and experiences of other fraternities, does have the weight of the devotion of a people who followed in droves.
arrives on Easter Tuesday and the picture given by one Juan Martinez Montanes and others to Juan de Mesa, the procession makes its way. Four lanterns light the figure of the Crucified One of the old sacristy. El Cristo de la Salud is on the streets and impressive arms drop draws on the towers of the Castle of Guzman. Accompanied
SALUS Vestre EGO SUM is the Queen of the "steps", the "steps" pallium, Our Lady of Sorrows, beautiful image of the late nineteenth century, beauty among beauties. Most would call her Beauty.
Maundy Thursday, and the history goes back the town of Tarifa. Jesus Nazareno de San Mateo out to "find" not only a mother but also the people that pays reverence and worship.
finally Friday, and before us the pathetic funeral: God is dead. The good soul of Joseph of Arimathea has buried the dead body of Jesus, Holy grave will be after, the backbone of our religion, he was a witness of God's victory over death. It is the passage of the Holy Sepulchre, but before the pathos reaches extreme levels before the image of Mary of Sorrows, who suffers tremendous pain to collect their dead child in his arms.
Passage of Our Lady of Sorrows opens the official mourning.
All this contrasts with an image of Our Lady of Hope, which as a beam points at dawn on Easter Sunday.
CULTS
Easter Tarifa has, like many other localities in Andalusia, a prologue Lent, in which the various guilds and brotherhoods carry out their internal worship and acts of reflection and penitence closely related to us as brothers.
They realized we separate the inside of the temple, such as machinery and Septenary, and the Via Crucis that develop in the streets near the parishes.
Holy Sepulchre, sculpture of the late nineteenth century.
Regarding the former, the Cristo de Medinaceli Triduum, which begins the first Friday of March, prefaces the cycle continues in the third week of Lent with Pentads in honor of Cristo del Consuelo, and finally with the Septenary Our Lady of Sorrows.
The second movement begins with the Santo Cristo del Consuelo from the chapel to the altar and ending with Penance Stations of the Cross Good Friday at noon, the entire fee makes the exercise of the seven words accompanying the image of Santo Cristo de la Salud, carried on the shoulders of their brothers. Between the two acts and at the initiative of the Local Board of Fraternities and Guilds is made a new Way of the Cross on the third Saturday of Lent. The images that have been made in recent years have been Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of Medinaceli. Captive
Jesus traveled places where they do their penitential station the other brotherhoods, old places and streets adjoining the main church San Mateo.
With Jesus Nazareno turned to walk the old streets and intricate corners of his old neighborhood to be brought to the door of their ancient temple, now almost a heap of ruins-filled moment of joy to those who accompanied him. The Sovereign again have the city at his feet from his vantage point of the strait.
However, the key moments in Tarifa cults are described and the Seven Words and Sermons of the Rendezvous and the Encounter.
The mere description of these events can take away something they really are very essential parts of our religious faith.
CORNERS, costaleros and MANTILLAS
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Corners are almost monumental street in Tarifa. They observed the traces of Islamic urbanism: narrow streets and intricate, with white walls sometimes hidden works of great artistic value and other materials poor folk. The lime, as in other places, acts as a uniform.
next to white, green vegetation, cultivated in pots and borders, forming a unique whole.
is in this context that run our processions, in the shadow of the battlements of the castle walls.
The beautiful image of Our Lady of Tears is the work of local carver Manuel Reina.
And within it there are places travel where the shows look more brilliantly. Narrow streets like the Holy Trinity or bend like Maria Antonia Toledo witness the immense sacrifice of the bearers and the expertise of the supervisors or prosecutors. Only the Official Race, the wide, straight road, it offers certain limited securities, because all the people throng to watch it and comment on the movements of some and the leadership of others.
Across the ancient river that divided the city into two, the neighborhood area of \u200b\u200bAzogues, an old Muslim suburb in the heart of the existing perimeter wall, it also witnessed the prowess of these men as they pass through the San Mateo, with its central bend.
On a different level, other attractive places are the parades pass before Almedina Street, with its beautiful and newly restored Gothic door in front of goal Mudejar Puerta de Jerez. At these points, porters and bearers rest of the efforts of the most difficult of the course or are ready to save.
costaleros Chargers ... And in Tarifa there are two ways of carrying the steps. Both groups are professionals, teachers of art that should not disappear.
Joining them were born in the last few years a movement towards the formation of bands of brothers bearers, the first of which has been built around the image of Jesus the Entry into Jerusalem. Formerly
this image, and when it was accompanied by that of Our Lady of Peace, carried in procession dressed young Tarifa blanket.
Women Tarifa, famed since antiquity beautiful, classic dress with panache English garment, but reserved especially for the night of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. On the last day it is customary for at least a hundred of them accompanied by an exclusive image of Our Lady of Hope, passing constiruir not just part of the show but an aesthetic of great traditional value.
Pd: Source: Official Chronicler Archive Teran Jesus Gil. Easter Book. These notes had them for making a little book of Holy Week, but I fear they have seen the light earlier, due to plagiarism. However ire thus displaying information.
Memories and Present, published in official gazettes Easter in Tarifa, year 2009-2010
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