Maundy Thursday

Thursday's procession goes down my street. This picture is from my living room window. We made it too late back to the piso to catch the Cristo, but the Virgen (La Mediacion) is my favorite anyway. If you look closely at the picture you can see the costalero's feet underneath the paso.

Most of you know this, but in case you don't, these huge floats, called pasos, are carried by people! Most of the Virgens are carried by men because they weigh more because of all the cloth used for their clothes. However, there are quite a number of costaleras nowadays. Here in town, the Cristo is carried by women.

For those of you who are also not religious, but studied in Spain...did you know that jueves santo is Maundy Thursday

in English?

This is the Cristo that the the Mediacion accompanies on the march through town coming out of the church. This is the image that's behind the main altar of the church all year round. Usually his paso is covered in red carnations, but this year they were purple irises. I like the purple better.