" GOOD FRIDAY SEMANA SANTA " NEWS UPDATE;

EASTER SATURDAY 19^th/ APRIL 2014.

“ GOOD FRIDAY SEMANA SANTA ” – NEWS UPDATE;

As you can see below it was a glorious day in sunny Manilva with a little breeze as the two processions took place; on ‘Good Friday’ it’s the day when the ladies of the village dress in the traditional Black ‘La Mantillia’ as you can see in the pictures below, also the Purple hooded ‘Nazarneo’s’ are youngsters! The village Brass Band is also at its largest as the play the music that has been chosen by the Brotherhoods.

In all the processions all the members are from the village with fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brother and sisters and various family members; in my ‘People’ pictures below you can see Marta in her ‘Mantillia’ for the first time, she lives at the bottom of our street and we have seen her grow up, the two councilors Diego & Mario are my ‘Grape’ crushing companions, Mario’s wife is in the picture on the left with the Mayor Antonia on the left, our friend ‘Paco – Ringo’ is also the ‘Honoree’ conductor along side Fernando as he’s the oldest member of the band.

The two young men in the dark glasses are brothers, Christian & Antonio and live at the bottom of our street, the Chief of Police,Paco also has lots of family members taking part and the full council members have lots of their close family in the procession;

Valentina is the ‘Lady in Black’ she’s from the ‘Foreign Residents Department’ and is Rumanian/Spanish speaker, Antonia with her son and baby daughter is our next door neighbors niece, the leader of one of the ‘Tronos’ also lives in our street, his wife Anna Marie is on the left with our ‘Campo Egg’ lady Antonia who is also related to lots of the families in the village, Pillar is outside her house and is our next door neighbor above us, carrying the ‘Tronos’ in the pictures are various friends including Lumy’s youngest son Paco.

I make printed glossy photo pictures and give then to the various people, the Chief of Police has them on his wall in his office as does the Mayor Antonia! They also end up in frames in all the house’s around the village including on the wall of ‘Bar Rojas’!!

Finally last night at mid-night it was the third procession of the day when “De la Soledad” which is undertaken in strict silence – we did not make it !

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