Holy Week Palencia -

Passion Saturday | 18.45 h. Piety and Reconciliation

Walk
[18:45] [1] Church of San Agustín Mayor • Plaza León • Eduardo Dato • Niños de Coro • Plaza San Pablo [19:10] [2] CHURCH OF SAN PABLO · DOMINICAN FATHERS [19:20] [3] Monastery of La Piedad · Dominican Nuns Hermanos Madrid • Luis Guanella • Canónigo San Martín • Cuartel de San Fernando • Cervantes • Plaza de San Antolín [19:40] [4] Home for the Elderly (next to the former Franciscan Monastery of San Buenaventura) Mayor Antigua • Santo San Pedro • Plaza de la Inmaculada [20:00] [5] INSIDE THE HOLY CATHEDRAL Jorge Manrique • Juan de Castilla • Barrio y Mier • Mayor • Don Sancho • Burgos [20:30] [6] Church of Santa Clara · Poor Clare Sisters Joaquín Costa • Plazuela de la Sal • Plaza Mayor [20:50] [7 and Litany] San Francisco Ignacio Martínez de Azcoitia • Lope de Vega [Fraternal Act] Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre Valentín Calderón • Mayor [21:30] Church of San Agustín

Acts
On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood and the 20th anniversary of the Friends of St Francisco, the procession will go through the center of the city centering the main act, an act of Reconciliation, in the church of St Francisco. [18:30] Start. Church of San Agustín [18:45] 1st Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Church of San Pablo [18:55] 2nd Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Chapel of the Nazarenes [19:10] 3rd Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Agustinas Recoletas Chapel [19:35] 4th Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Church of San Miguel [20:20] 5th Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Church of the Company [20:40] 6th Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Chapel of Solitude [20:50] 7th Mystery of the Franciscan Crown. Chapel of the 'OFS' (Franciscan Secular Order) [21:00] Act of reconciliation. Church of San Francisco [21:55] Litany. Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher [22:15] Farewell. Church of San Agustín.

Attention places
Every act.

The procession leaves, at the end of the afternoon, the Penitential Church of St. Agustin. The silence of cofrades and public accompanies the passage of the Virgin of Piety, in a journey some years shorter and others more extensive, which runs through the city center at first, then go to the neighborhood of the parish that each year the Assembly of the organizing Brotherhood determines.

ESSENCE

The PROCESSION OF PIETY AND RECONCILIATION takes place on the afternoon of the Saturday of Passion. Approved in 2005, it combines the austerity of the Franciscan spirit of its organizing brotherhood, the Franciscan Brotherhood of Our Mother of Piety, based on the absence of Baroque processional reminiscences and the elimination of any spectacularity of recent years, with the idiosyncrasy of the Palencian processional cycle, inherited from many years of popular penance in the days of Passion.

The sky darkens on the afternoon at the Passion Saturday. While the city is waking up to a new Holy Week, the procession, as dramatic testimony, advances slowly, outside the city walls, seeking the intimate and fervent neighborhood recollection. The overwhelming silence, torn by the stereotyped sound of the rattles, creates a profound religious depth, inviting to a solitary prayer fulled of feeling. The night and its shy lights enhance the penitent silhouettes, creating a monastic time that reflects the severe, austere and Franciscan pain near the Mother, who walks looking for the repentance of her children.

Imaginery

Holy Piety Virgin

St. Francisco of Asis