Thursday, March 28

“After four years without going out, we are crazy to be able to do it”


Seven figures make up the passage of the Descent, which has been restored. / TODAY

The Brotherhood of the Descent will take out its titular step restored during the pandemic today in procession

This Good Friday is very special for the Brotherhood of the Holy Crucifix and the Descent from the Cross for two reasons. The first is that finally, after four years without being able to do it, it will be able to go out in procession. The second, because he will be able to show off one of his two restored titular steps, that of Descent.

«In 2018 and 2019 we could not go out in procession because the rain prevented us, and in 2020 and 2021 neither because of the pandemic; so after four consecutive years without being able to leave, we are crazy to be able to do it, ”summarizes the president of the Brotherhood of the Holy Crucifix and the Descent from the Cross, Jesús Manuel Miranda.

The procession will leave at 9:00 p.m. from Santo Domingo and will carry out its usual route with the three steps with which this brotherhood has been doing it since 1925: the Christ of the Agony, the Descent and the Virgin of Angustias.

The first is owned by the Bishopric and is venerated throughout the year in the Pilar parish since San Vicente Ferrer was closed to worship. This temple, also known as Santo Domingo, returns to this temple from the 16th century by an anonymous author every Holy Week on the Saturday before Palm Sunday, after a Way of the Cross through the Pilar neighborhood, where it returns when the religious celebration ends.

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It was restored by the Bishopric before 2018, but Plasencians have not been able to see it since then because it has not been in procession for four years. Just as they have not been able to see, until this Good Friday, the new step of the Descent, which will be a century old in 2025. “That is why its restoration was necessary, because it was already very deteriorated, so we carried it out during the pandemic, since we knew that we could not leave it,” explains Jesús Manuel Miranda.

Those in charge of doing it have been the sisters Alba and Elsa Ramos in their workshop in Talavera de la Reina. And to both restored titular steps, the procession of the Virgen de las Angustias, by José Jerique, will be added to the procession this Good Friday, as well as the Descent, “which has been perfect”, advances the president of the brotherhood.

The children’s procession and the banners of the seven words will open a parade in which the music will be performed by the Musical Association of the Holy Dinner and the ‘Ciudad de Plasencia’ band, and in which around 600 brotherhoods are expected to participate total.

Some fewer, around 200, will do so in the Holy Saturday procession, in charge of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Solitude and the Holy Sepulchre. The one that will open the guide cross and that will star the two titular steps that give name to this brotherhood from Placentina.

The painting of the Virgin

El Paso del Sepulcro, with a recumbent Christ from the 16th century by an unknown author, a life-size polychrome cork figure in a single piece, in a 17th-century glass case. And the Virgen de la Soledad, from 1764 and the work of Luis Salvador Carmona, a dress size in which only the hands and face can be seen, who will wear a white dress with a black mantle with gold embroidery and with the insignia of the Civil Guard, “who was the one who gave us the mantle 25 years ago when we became brothers with the body,” details Julián Gutiérrez, president of the Brotherhood of Solitude and the Holy Sepulchre.

The music will be provided by the Group of the Holy Supper and, as tradition dictates, the section of ladies of Soledad will accompany the Virgin in a procession that will leave at 7:30 p.m. from Santo Domingo.

But this brotherhood will have something new in the morning this year. “Alfonso Silos, the man from Placentia who has painted a painting starring our Virgen de la Soledad, will deliver it to us so that we can exhibit it throughout the year in the brotherhood temple of San Vicente Ferrer,” says Gutiérrez, where also throughout the the year the steps of this brotherhood are kept. In reality, five, although only its two headlines procession, “because we have given Veronica to Vera Cruz and for the other two steps we have, San Juan and San Pedro repentant, we do not have enough costaleros to get them out,” he concludes. President.


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