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Brotherhoods have existed in C\u00e1ceres since the 15th century and the celebration of Holy Week has been commemorated for more than five centuries, as there is documented evidence of processions since 1609. These were processions with images that went around the monumental city of C\u00e1ceres praying in front of the tabernacles of the churches and chapels, singing the psalms of the Miserere.<\/p>\n
Since 2011, Easter Week in C\u00e1ceres has been declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest, due to the value of the C\u00e1ceres Brotherhoods with a long tradition of faith and spirit of brotherhood that dates back to the 15th century, with an imagery heritage of incalculable artistic value, but the most unique aspect is the integration of the Monumental City with the celebration, as most of the processional routes run through the historic centre of C\u00e1ceres, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986.<\/p>\n
Seventeen Brotherhoods, sixteen of them belonging to the Union of Penitential Brotherhoods of C\u00e1ceres, will stage twenty-three Processional Parades, with fifty-two Processions, of varied styles, periods, forms of carrying and clothing, and some fifteen thousand brothers and sisters who will stage the most beautiful principle of the Christian Faith: the Redemption brought to us by Christ.<\/p>\n
Semana Santa Cacere\u00f1a has adapted to the new times without losing its personality, in such a way that C\u00e1ceres can no longer be understood without its Semana Santa, nor Semana Santa Cacere\u00f1a without the complicity and effort of all the C\u00e1ceres brotherhoods.<\/p>\n
Easter Week in C\u00e1ceres and Tourism have become one of the main engines of the C\u00e1ceres economy and in these times of crisis they help to save jobs and improve the quality of life of the people of C\u00e1ceres.<\/p>\n
Our Holy Week is distinguished by its solemn and traditional tone; and, in the human aspect, we must highlight the great participation of the brotherhoods, many children and young people who are beginning to live the spirit of the brotherhoods and who tell us that the future of the brotherhoods in C\u00e1ceres is guaranteed.<\/p>\n
You have to love C\u00e1ceres for its stones, its gardens, its legends, its history, its customs, its wisdom, but C\u00e1ceres always loves your brother above all else, the man who lives in this two thousand year old city.<\/p>\n
Let us live Holy Week with passion and faith, a celebration that the people of C\u00e1ceres, endowed with a very fine sensitivity and innate joy, turn into a celebration, knowing beforehand the end of the story, a story that ends well, with the triumph of life over death. Of a Christ who announces his Death to the world and at the same time proclaims his imminent Resurrection, a lesson of peace and hope for the whole of humanity.<\/p>\n
In 2020, as a consequence of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic we are suffering, the traditional Easter processions in C\u00e1ceres will not take place.
\nNow it is our turn to stay at home and experience Holy Week in a more interior, spiritual and virtual way through the networks and audiovisual media.<\/p>\n
But we must have courage and hope that this will be solved soon and that next year we will go out with our processional floats on the streets thanking Christ and his mother the Virgin Mary for having helped us to solve this tremendous crisis. We look forward to seeing you in 2021 in C\u00e1ceres to feel the Passion of C\u00e1ceres and enjoy the charms of our monumental World Heritage City.<\/p>\n
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Santos Ben\u00edtez Floriano<\/strong> [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row].<\/p>\n The Monumental City of C\u00e1ceres is the marvellous setting for the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the most transcendent event in the history of humanity, of which Christians know the end, an enormously happy ending, the triumph of life over death, a lesson of Peace and Hope for all Humanity.<\/p>\n
\nPresident of the Uni\u00f3n de Cofrad\u00edas Penitenciales de C\u00e1ceres (Union of Penitential Brotherhoods of C\u00e1ceres)<\/em><\/p>\n