SEVILLA, 29 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
After midnight this Good Friday, the majority of the Madrugada brotherhoods, specifically El Silencio, Gran Poder, Macarena, Esperanza de Triana and Los Gitanos, have chosen to suspend their penance stations as a result of the meteorology, with a Holy Thursday marked by rain and strong gusts of wind and prediction of precipitation during the early morning.
Before beginning the emblematic Early Morning of Holy Week in Seville, and given the clearly unfavorable weather forecasts, the brotherhoods of Macarena, Gran Poder and Esperanza de Triana, as well as the brotherhoods of El Silencio and Los Gitanos, announced their decisions to cancel their departures at penitence station, due to the bad weather forecasts offered by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), with percentages close to 100%, so that the rain and uncertainty have frustrated this day and have reissued a picture that It has not been repeated since 2011.
That year, as a result of the water, the six brotherhoods of La Madrugada did not go out, since they did not want to risk taking into account that the percentage of rain provided then by the Aemet was 70%. An unusual circumstance thus occurred, to the point that this unfortunate event had not occurred since 1933, on that occasion due to political disagreements, and with the exception of the years 2021 and 2022, in which there were no processions in the streets due to the situation. derived from the Covid pandemic.
The Esperanza de Triana brotherhood was the first to inform its brothers that it would not hold a penance station at the Cathedral. An official announcement that occurred around 11:30 p.m. At the stroke of midnight, it was the brotherhoods of Gran Poder and Macarena who made the same decision in the face of bad weather forecasts, with rain percentages close to 100% all morning. A few minutes later El Silencio and Los Gitanos did it.
The Great Power decided to open the Basilica to the brothers, devotees and faithful “to pray before the Sacred Titulars.” The Governing Board of La Macarena stated in a statement on its social networks that it “prioritized the care of the very large body of Nazarenes of the brotherhood.” “He has also ensured to protect the Sacred Heads and the material heritage of the Brotherhood.”
The brotherhood of Esperanza de Triana expressed itself along these lines: “This decision, as difficult as it is painful, is made with due responsibility to all the brothers who make up our brotherhood, who do not deserve to be unnecessarily exposed to the inclemency of the weather. both on the way to the Sailors’ Chapel and during the processional exit.
“A difficult decision that is made always thinking about the good of our material heritage, but above all, human. Despite everything, we thank the Lord of Health and his Blessed Mother of Sorrows for these much-needed rains,” he highlighted. Los Gitanos in a statement.