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| align = right | caption_align = center | direction= vertical | title = Holy Week in Guatemala | posición_título = center | fondo_de_título = | caption = | posición_caption = center | image1 = VolcanAguaPascuas01.jpg |width1 = 250 | caption1 = Sawdust carpet in Antigua Guatemala. In the background, Volcán de Agua. | image2 = Procesi%C3%B3n_de_Jes%C3%BAs_de_los_Milagros,_Iglesia_de_San_Jos%C3%A9,_ciudad_de_Guatemala,_en_Domingo_de_Ramos.JPG | width2 = 250 | caption2 = Jesús de los Milagros procession, San José Church, Palm Sunday in Guatemala City | image4 = INRI_Livingston.jpg | caption4 = Live crucifixion representation in Livingston, Izabal | width4 = 250 | image3 = AntiguaEasterCarpetMaya.jpg | width3 = 250 | caption3 =Sawdust carpet in Antigua Guatemala with Maya motives. | image5=Semana_Santa_Antigua_Guatemala.jpg | caption5 =Virgen Dolorosa in her Good Friday procession.|width5=250 }} Holy Week in Guatemala is celebrated with street expressions of faith, called processions, usually organized by a "hermandad". Each procession of Holy Week has processional floats and steps, which are often religious images of the Passion of Christ, or Marian images, although there are exceptions, like the allegorical steps of saints. HistoryThe Catholic fervor that currently exists in Guatemala has almost magical and mystical dyes due to the syncretism between the Mayan religion and the Catholic doctrine; it combines elements dating from the old American cultures and from Catholicism imposed by the Spanish in the Colonial era. Syncretism appears in subtle factors such as figure drawing of a butterfly on the sawdust carpet for a Christ procession, for the butterfly, for the Maya, more than a mere insect, symbolized the Sun -one of their most important deities- and also represented life and the afterlife. That image does not appear anywhere in Holy Week activities held in Spain. Pre-columbine eraTo understand the current Guatemalan Holy Week one must go back to the religion of the Maya, where there were amazing coincidences that perhaps helped the Catholic religion fit more with the beliefs of Native Americans. One of these similarities is that indigenous Guatemalans used a palanquin to transport wealthy citizens and rulers.{{sfn|Villalobos|2009|p=}}[1] {{quote box|The cross is not exclusive of Judeo-Christian; even in Chiapas and parts of Huehuetenango it is still used to keep out evil spirits in some villages. Also as symbolic of purification, the Mayas fasted in the final five days of your calendar as well as for special holidays.|Juan Antonio Valdés, PhD in Archaeology{{sfn|Villalobos|2009|p=}}}}For the natives it was not difficult to understand or accept the existence of the Holy Trinity because for them, the creators of this world were three, known by Mayan scholars as "G1", "G2" and "G3"; neither was to assimilate Virgin Mary, because they associated her with Ixchel -the moon, creative life- mother.{{sfn|Villalobos|2009|p=}} Holy Week in Medieval Europe{{Main|Holy Week}}Holy Week was created in the Council of Nicea -set up by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in the year 325 A.D.- because in that council it was decided when to celebrate Passover and how to calculate the date for the celebration. Subsequently, the Order of the Knights Templar promoted the praise for the Passion of Christ. After the disappearance of that order, -close order fourteenth century - the Franciscans were dedicated to preserve the traditions that had been acquired over time; they were the ones who developed the Via Crucis, one of the most representative aspects of the Holy Week festivities.{{sfn|Villalobos|2009|p=}} The first liturgies were celebrated only among religious enclosed in churches, and sinners were not admitted. Later they evolved into processions where people took to the streets to express their guilt.{{sfn|Villalobos|2009|p=}} Bourbon Reforms{{Main|Bourbon Reforms}}In 1765 the Bourbon reforms were published by the Spanish Crown, which sought to recover the real power over the colonies and increase tax collection.{{sfn|Melchor Toledo|2011|p=110}} With these reforms, specific trade regulators were created to control the production of alcoholic beverages, snuff, gunpowder, playing cards and cock fights. The Royal Treasury auctioned annually some trade regulators and then bought them, thus becoming the owner of the monopoly of a certain product. That same year, four sub-delegations of the Royal Treasury were created in San Salvador, Ciudad Real, Comayagua and León and the political and administrative structure of the Captaincy General of Guatemala changed to 15 provinces.{{sfn|Melchor Toledo|2011|p=111}} In addition to this administrative redistribution, the Spanish crown established a policy to diminish the power of the Catholic Church,{{sfn|Melchor Toledo|2011|p=111}} power that until then was virtually all over the Spanish vassals. The policy of reducing power of the church was based on the Enlightenment and had six main points:
19th Century{{See also|Rafael Carrera|Justo Rufino Barrios}}After the overthrow and expulsion of members of Aycinena Clan in 1829, the Liberals ousted the regular orders and just left the secular clergy in the country, although without the fixed income from mandatory tithing.{{sfn|González Davison|2008|p=4-15}} This greatly weakened the Catholic Church in Guatemala, but after the failure of liberal governor Mariano Gálvez to combat an epidema of cholera morbus, parish priests incited the peasant population against him, and under the leadership of Rafael Carrera, drove Gálvez and liberal out of power. After a decade of government, Carrera allowed the return of the regular orders and conservative elite Catholics and authorized compulsory tithing again, reinforcing the Church in the country and the manifestations of faith such as Holy Week flourished. Indeed, in 1852, Guatemala and the Holy See signed a concordat in which the latter was entrusted with the education of the Guatemalan population and church-state union in the country was reinforced.{{sfn|Aycinena|1854|2-16}} After the fall of the Conservative regime and the Liberal victory in 1871, the Catholic Church suffered renewed attacks on its economic and political influence, as happened in 1829 when it was attacked by the Liberal government of Francisco Morazán. In 1873, the regular orders were again evicted, their property confiscated -including convents, haciendas and doctrines of Indians throughout the country- and mandatory tithing was abolished, leaving the secular clergy relegated to their parishes without stable income.{{sfn|Martínez Peláez|1990|p=842}} {{quote box|Article 32: It guarantees the right of association for the various purposes of life, according to law. The establishment of monastic congregations and all kind of monastic institutions or associations, as well as the formation and operation of political organizations, either of international or foreign character is prohibited. Are not included in this prohibition, organizations that advocate the Central American Union and the Pan-American or continental solidarity doctrines. |Constitution of Guatemala of 1945{{sfn|Asamblea Nacional Constituyente|1945|p=7}}}}In May 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued his Rerum Novarum encyclical -The situation of workers- key document that helped Catholic Church parishes gradually transform to fit in liberal states; in Guatemala this reorganization was reinforced by a new form of reproduction of ideas expressed in the press whose images and speeches were sent to the faithful for an efficient postal service developed by the Liberal State. The progress of Catholicism in the United States began to serve as an example in the reconquest of ideological power in totally liberal states.{{sfn|Semana Santa en Guatemala|n.d.|p=1}} There was a strengthening of Catholicism during the government of General José María Reyna Barrios (1892–1898), thanks to the political opening of his government to secular clergy and his concern for the dissemination of art and the defense of local culture, which led him to subscribe to the Berne Convention, respecting the popular manifestations of faith, expressed primarily in the processions of the Passion of christ.{{sfn|Semana Santa en Línea|n.d.|p=1}} And this was accomplished even though Reyna Barrios was a high degree Freemason. However, the official entry of the regular orders was not allowed because the Guatemalan constitution forbid their presence in its soil at the time.{{sfn|Asamblea Nacional Constituyente|1945|p=7}} 20th CenturyAfter the fall of Jacobo Arbenz regime, the Catholic Church regained some of the power he had had during the Conservative government of Rafael Carrera in the nineteenth century,{{sfn|Sabino|2007|p=}} and as part of it, private religious education boomed from 1955 on, with the founding of several elite schools for boys which absorbed the elite students who had previously attended classes in secular government institutions. Even though the Archbishop of Guatemala, Mariano Rossell y Arellano, published a letter explaining that the Catholic Church was not seeking privileges in its fight against Arbenz,{{sfn|Rossell y Arellano|1954|p=}} he managed to get that the government of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas incorporated in the Constitution of 1956 these:
Rossell y Arellano started an aggressive campaign to get Catholicism back in Guatemala: he restored the Archbishop's Palace and the residence of Bishop Francisco Marroquín in San Juan del Obispo, Sacatepequez;{{sfn|Asociación de Amigos del País|2004|p=}} on July 22, 1953 he received fathers Antonio Rodríguez Pedrazuela and José María Báscones who began the work of Opus Dei in Guatemala;{{sfn|Rodríguez Pedrazuela|1999|p=}} and in 1959 held the First Central American Eucharistic Congress. Gradually he managed the get regular orders back to Guatemala and participated in several sessions of the Second Vatican Council, organized by Pope John XXIII.{{sfn|Esquipulas online|n.d.|p=}} Over the years, and with advances in transportation and communication, the number of pilgrims and devotion to the Lord of Esquipulas made the city "Latin American Capital of Faith". In 1956 Pope Pius XII erected the Prelature Nullius Cristi of Esquipulas, which is formed by the Municipality of Esquipulas and its cathedral Sanctuary. The Pope also appointed as Prime Esquipulas Prelate Archbishop Rossell y Arellano. One of the first concerns of Rossell was seeking a religious community to take over the pastoral care of the temple; after many failed initiatives, he managed to find support from the Benedictine Abbey of San José in Louisiana, United States. On Palm Sunday of 1959, the first three Benedictine monks arrived at Esquipulas and founded the Benedictine Monastery.[2] Considering many religious, cultural and historical aspects Blessed Pope John XXIII agreed to the request made by Bishop Rossell Arellano and raised the Sanctuary of Esquipulas to the rank of Minor Basilica in 1961.{{sfn|Esquipulas online|n.d.|p=}} Holy Week artSculptures
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ProcessionsGuatemala City{{See also|Guatemala City}}
Antigua Guatemala{{See also|Antigua Guatemala}}
See also{{Portal|Guatemala|Catholicism}}
Notes and referencesNotes1. ^As shown in the Ratinlinxul Cup, From Alta Verapaz, where there is a painting of a procession with a nobleman sit on top of several servants that are carrying him. Behind them there are five musicians, with instruments similar to trumpets. Also, a door frame in Temple I in Tikal has an sculpted scene in which a divine lord (K’ul Ahaw) is being carried on the shoulders of several people. 2. ^United Fruit Company headquarters were in New Orleans at the time. 3. ^Also known as "Jesús Nazareno de los Nobles" in Antigua Guatemala and as "Jesús Nazareno of the poor" in Guatemala city after the earthquakes of 1917-18. 4. ^The Order of Preachers returned to Guatemala in 1956. References{{reflist}}Bibliography{{refbegin}}
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