Easter in Taxco...

One of the most important tourist attractions that the state of Guerrero is the celebration of Holy Week in Taxco.

From 40 days before Holy Week ceremonies are held on the occasion of the Six Fridays of Lent, with each parish one day: the first Friday Tecalpulco; the second to Acamixtla; the third to Tehuilotepec and Taxco; the fourth to La Veracruz; the fifth, is performed in Atzala; and, sixth, in Paintla.

Begins with Sunday called Carnival, secular holiday that represents the wildness and farewell to the pleasures of the flesh; formerly was celebrated with great enthusiasm by young people who came together in the Guerrero park or garden Borda and, amid a shower of shells painted in colors and filled with confetti, dancing entertained by a local orchestra.

On Wednesday following the Sunday of Carnival is Ash day Lenten season proper starts. Local faithful come off early to church for the priest, with the ash of burnt relics, imposes the sign of the cross on the forehead and remember every person the origin of our humanity: "Dust thou art and to dust you will become. "

Palm Sunday or Easter commemorates the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, among a crowd cheering him with olive branches, palms and flowers; and Holy Week begins. Early on, the faithful are concentrated in the town of Tehuilotepec where the procession started.

From Easter Monday, the faithful began a series of processions that take place at night, starting from the other temples of the city or even in some nearby town; to the sound of the clarions, walk, with images of their respective chapels.

The Holy Tuesday corresponds to the Procession of Souls and leads San Nicolás Tolentino, a sculpture of similar proportions to a human, wearing only a discovered face black skirt and a halo on his head, crucifix and rosary in hand, with clear evidence flogging and outbreaks of blood on the back. Men wear face covered with a black hood called hood; go barefoot, dragging chains, and bare torso; flagellants carry a wooden cross 3 of 2 m and 6 kg, a rosary in one hand and in the other a discipline made with horsehair and nails with whipping their backs, they look macerated and bloody. Women go in another group; covered completely black and barefoot walk on the forearms bent carrying a wooden crucifix and a rosary.

The Holy Wednesday a stage of "Mount of Olives" in the atrium of the parish of Santa Prisca and San Sebastián is placed, and locals flock with birds, parrots and parakeets in cages; to 21.00, the procession leaves the Holy Trinity from the temple that bears his name; is accompanied by the Apostles, Christ of the Silversmiths, San Judas Tadeo, Jesus the Good Shepherd, the Lord of Mercy.

On Holy Thursday, the procession of the community Xochula, performed the symbolic ceremony of the Washing, where Jesus, represented by the priest washes the feet of his disciples and invites them to participate in the Last Supper, celebrated and the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. In the porch of the temple Arrest shown, by local actors, and the procession headed who plays Judas Iscariot starts.

On Good Friday the Sermon on the judgment of Jesus is read at 6.00 am; at 11.00, the Procession of the Three Falls, part of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas is organized. At 13:00 Jesus is crucified, at 16:00 we proceed to the Descent of the Holy Body and returned to the Convent of San Bernardino de Siena. At midnight, the Procession of Silence begins.

On Holy Saturday the faithful to observe, all day, absolute silence as a sign of mourning and sadness at the death of Jesus requested. At night, in the church of Santa Prisca and San Sebastián, there solemn Easter Vigil Mass; at 00:00 Mass of Resurrection, where the Lord's image appears dressed in a white robe and Gloria opens held; Roman soldiers who remained in the court for the faint fall

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  Easter Sunday is compulsory to attend Mass, and merchants selling meat again given away to their customers batons, flags, pop Zompantle and many curiosities.