Final stretch of Lent: all the planned transfers this weekend in Malaga

As Lent draws to a close, the religious brotherhoods and sisterhoods of Málaga are carrying out their traditional processions to prepare their patron saints for their processions during Holy Week. This weekend will see 19 of these processions, as well as the procession of Esperanza y Refugio. Friday, March 20, and Sunday, March 22, will see the highest number of processions.

Friday, March 20

• Transfer of Nueva Esperanza

Nueva Esperanza will carry out the transfer of its statues on Friday, March 20, at 8:00 p.m. from the parish church of Santa Ana y Joaquín. It will continue through Plaza de Don José María Ortega, Maestro Pablo Luna, Sondalezas, and Colegio Gamarra (Calle Doctor Lazárraga), where a ceremony will take place (9:45 p.m.), then continuing along Gamarra Lane, Rosa Street, Magistrado Salvador Barberá Street, to Camino de los Castillejos, where it will return to its brotherhood house (approximately at 11:30 p.m.).

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Zamarrilla band. On the fifth Friday of Lent, March 20, Sed y Buen Finwill hold its procession, beginning at 6:00 PM, following this route: Miraflores de los Ángeles Avenue, Ibrahim Street, Juan Antonio Tercero, Miragladiolos, Los Ángeles Square, Mirarosa, Nuestra Señora de los Clarines, Venegas, Gazules, Alonso Hernández, Segismundo Moret, José Canalejas, Plaza Eduardo Dato, Moreno Nieto, Church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Moreno Nieto, Arturo Reyes, and back to Miraclaveles. The procession is scheduled to return around 11:15 p.m.

• Sed y Buen Fin Procession

And the musical accompaniment will be provided by the A.M. San Lorenzo Mártir (Málaga). The brotherhood ofLa Paloma will perform the Stations of the Cross and carry out the enthronement of the Lord at 8:00 PM, inside the chapel in Plaza de San Francisco. The Brotherhood of El Rescate will carry out the transfer of Nuestro Padre Jesús del Rescate and María Santísima de Gracia starting at 7:30 PM, departing from the Santuario de la Victoria to the Brotherhood House. The route will continue through Plaza del Santuario, San Patricio, Cristo de la Epidemia, Plaza de Mendizábal, Puerto Parejo, Párroco Ruiz Furest, Plaza de la Victoria, Victoria, Agua, and finally back to the Brotherhood House.

• Way of the Cross and Enthronement of La Paloma

• Procession of Rescate

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Cruz del Humilladero Cultural Music Association. On Friday, March 20, the Sagrada Cena will hold its outbound procession to prepare for its Holy Week procession. The route begins at 9:30 PM on Fray Alonso de Santo Tomás, continues along San Jacinto, Puente de la Esperanza, Prim, Arriola, Sagasta, Olózaga, Sebastián Souvirón, Plaza Félix Sáenz, Nueva, Especerías, Cisneros, Fajardo, Compañía, and ends at Plazuela Virgen de la Paz (around 11:45 PM)

.Starting at 8:00 p.m., at the oratory of the Penas brotherhood, the cloistered transfer and enthronement of the Virgin will take place. This is an event for the members of the brotherhood. The Parish of San Pablo will host the cloistered transfer and enthronement of the Cristo de la Esperanza in his Gran Amor, starting at 8:00 p.m. The Brotherhood of the Crucifixion will carry out its procession following the Nazarenes’ Mass celebrated on Friday, March 20, at the Parish of the Good Shepherd.

• Evening Procession

• Closed-door procession of Las Penas

• Closed-door procession of Salud

• Procession of the Crucifixion

The Carmen Doloroso Music Group will provide the musical accompaniment. On Friday, March 20, the procession of the Brotherhood of Students will also take place, beginning at 10:00 p.m. The route will start at the Church of Santo Cristo de la Salud y San Sebastián, proceeding along Constitución, Granada, Carbón, Siglo, Granada, San Agustín, and Císter to Alcazabilla, where the Brotherhood House is located.

• Procession of the Brotherhood of Students

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Soledad Marching Band

Saturday, March 21

• Lenten Procession of Esperanza y Refugio

On March 21, the Saturday of the opening proclamation, the Brotherhood of Esperanza y Refugio will hold its procession. It will depart at 5:30 p.m. from Plaza Garo, continuing along Carraca, Arroyo de los Ángeles, Avenida de Nuestra Señora de los Clarines, Miraclaveles, Avenida Miraflores de los Ángeles, Plaza Monseñor Bocanegra, Plaza de los Ángeles, Miragladiolos, Juan Antonio Tercero, Ibrahim, Vandelvira, Brújula Enrique de Egas, Lorenzo Silva, Barón de Les, Cabas Galván, Venegas, Gazulez, Alonso Hernández, Segismundo Moret, Marqués de Ovieco, Julián Argos, José Canalejas, Cristinos Martos, Pacheco, and will end at Plaza Garo at 11:30 PM.

Sunday, March 22

• Transfer of the Gitanos

The Columna brotherhood of Málaga will carry out the outbound transfer of its principal images on Sunday, March 22, from the Church of Los Mártires to its Brotherhood House. The procession begins at 5:00 p.m. and follows this route: Comedias Street, Méndez Núñez, Casapalma, Álamos, Carcer, Jerónimo Cuervo Square, Ramos Marín, and Frailes, ending around 7:00 p.m.

The CCTT band of Los Gitanos will provide the musical accompaniment. The procession of the Piedad will begin at the Parish Church of the Virgin of Miracles and Saint Damasus the Pope at 11:00 a.m., passing through Almona, Cruz del Molinillo, Ollerías, Cabello, Parras, Cruz del Molinillo, and Alderete, where the Brotherhood House is located, arriving around 1:00 p.m. On Sunday the 22nd, the Archconfraternity of Sangre will hold a Way of the Cross and the transfer of the principal images at 10:00 a.m. from the Parish of San Felipe Neri to the Brotherhood House.

And starting at 11:30 a.m., its transfer procession will begin through the streets of El Molinillo: Plazuela del Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre, Parras, Cruz del Molinillo, Alderete, San Bartolomé, Duque de Rivas, Cruz del Molinillo, Ollerías, Carretería, Dos Aceras, and entry into the Brotherhood House.

• Transfer of La Piedad

• Transfer of Sangre

The Lord of the Blood will be accompanied by a pair of roncos drums, as well as several members of the A. M. de la Vera+Cruz de Campillos. And the Most Holy Virgin of Consolation and Tears will be accompanied musically, for the first time, by the Virgen de la Trinidad Symphonic Band. The procession of the Pollinica brotherhood will begin at 6:00 PM from the Church of San Agustín, continuing through Plaza de Jesús Castellano, Granada, Plaza de la Merced, Madre de Dios, Montaño, Guerrero, and Gaona streets to the small square at Santísimo Cristo de la Sangre and Parras, where the Brotherhood House is located. On Passion Sunday, the Brotherhood of the Prendimiento will carry out its procession, beginning its route at 6:00 p.m. at the Parish Church of the Divina Pastora and Santa Teresa de Jesús. The route will continue through Plaza de Capuchinos, Eduardo Domínguez Ávila, San Juan Bosco, Callejón del Sanatorio, Hospital Hermanas Hospitalarias, Callejón del Sanatorio, San Juan Bosco, Eduardo Domínguez Ávila, Alameda de Capuchinos, Miguel Bueno Lara, and San Millán to the Brotherhood House, where it will arrive around 11:00 PM.

• Procession of the Pollinica

• Procession of the Prendimiento

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Virgen del Rocío Band. The procession of the Huerto will begin at 6:00 PM, following this route: Parish Church of the Holy Martyrs, Mártires Street, Comedias, Nosquera, Muro de San Julián, Muro de las Catalinas, Arco de la Cabeza, Plazuela Virgen de las Penas, Pozos Dulces, Compañía, Santos, San Juan, Sebastián Souvirón, Plaza Arriola, Puente de Santo Domingo, Pasillo de Santo Domingo, Plaza de la Religiosa Dolores Márquez, Padre Jorge Lamothe to the Brotherhood House at 8:00 p.m.

• Archicofradía Huerto

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Virgen de la Caridad Music Chapel and the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción Music Chapel. On Passion Sunday, the brotherhood of the Mediadora will also carry out the procession of its principal figures. It will begin at 6:00 p.m., from the Parish Church of San Patricio, and will continue through La Hoz, Infantes, Las Navas, the Chapel of the Virgin of Carmen de Huelin, Garcerán, La Hoz, Ayala, Goya, Plaza Jardines de la Abadía, Amadeo Vives, Maestro Alonso, Maestro Chapí, and Cómico Riquelme to the Brotherhood House, around 8:30 p.m.

• Mediadora Procession

The Maestro Eloy García Band of the Archconfraternity of the Expiración will provide musical accompaniment for the procession. The merged confraternities will also hold their procession on March 22, at 6:00 PM.

The procession will depart from the Parish Church of San Juan Bautista and continue along Félix Sáenz, Nueva, Especería, and Cisneros streets, through the Pasillo de Santa Isabel, ending at the Brotherhood House. 

• Merged Brotherhoods Procession

Musical accompaniment will be provided by the Bugle and Drum Band of the Holy Christ of Redemption of Benalmádena, following the processions of Jesús de Azotes and Columna; the Fusionadas Musical Group, following the Holy Christ of Exaltation; and the Music Band of the Archconfraternity of Paso y la Esperanza, following Our Lady of the Greatest Sorrow and Saint John the Evangelist. The brotherhood of Penas will hold a kissing of the feet ceremony on Sunday, March 22, as well as the cloistered procession and enthronement of the Santísimo Cristo de la Agonía. This Passion Sunday, the kissing of the feet ceremony for the Señor de la Humillación will take place between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Following this, a cloistered Way of the Cross will take place, beginning at 7:30 p.m. It will be held at its canonical headquarters, the Parish of San Carlos and Santo Domingo de Guzmán.

• Cloistered Procession of the Christ of Agony

• Kissing of the Feet of Humiliation and Patience