Zamora (EFE) the square of the Cathedral.
The oath prayer, which this year was carried out by the journalist and director of the local television channel La 8 Zamora, Eva Crespo, alluded to the “deafening” silence that permeates the city during the parade and has asked for the Christ of Injury that he does not consent that “this lack of words today is ever an accomplice to violence, injustice, contempt, abuse, bullying or mistreatment.”
He has also underlined the importance of women also parading since last year and thanks to this the procession known as the Silencio de Zamora procession is “more complete”.
After the sound of the cello and the prayer of the communicator, the brothers have sworn to remain silent throughout the parade and the Bishop of Zamora, Fernando Valera, has asked God to reward them if they did so and to forgive them if they broke the oath.
With this initiation rite, with the Cathedral of Zamora as a witness, one of the most emblematic processions of Holy Week in the city has begun, which has been declared of International Tourist Interest and an Asset of Cultural Interest.
In it, the more than two thousand members, including a hundred women, have dressed in a white serge tunic and a red velvet hood and have carried an ax with a candle on their journey through the narrow streets of the old town and the widest and most modernist streets of the city center.
The procession, which has been held every Holy Wednesday for 98 years, has changed its conclusion this year to finish in Claudio Moyano square instead of in the Holy Week Museum due to the demolition and construction of a new museum complex to house the steps of the Zamora brotherhoods.
The silence of the parade has only been broken by the sound of six bugles and the horses that open the parade by hitting the cobblestones with their hooves.
As the most significant elements, in the procession two cauldrons were carried on their shoulders in which incense is burned, one of them weighing 900 kilos that includes a bell and reproduces the tower of the Savior of the Zamora Cathedral and another less bulky one that shows scale the dome of the seo zamorana.
In the final part of the procession, on a processional table painted in gold, an imposing Cristo de las Injurias from the 16th century of great expressiveness has paraded.
The carving, which is usually kept in one of the chapels of the Zamora Cathedral, is by an unknown author and has been attributed to sculptors of the time such as Gaspar Becerra, Diego de Siloé or Arnau Pallá.