Logroño, Apr 7 (EFE).- More than three thousand brothers take part this Friday in the great procession of the Holy Burial of Logroño, which has been followed by thousands of people crowded through the streets of the old town of the capital of La Rioja.
The eleven brotherhoods of Logroño, with their “headline” steps, participate in this procession that is not only the most massive of the Holy Week in the city but is also the one that provides the greatest artistic representation of all those that come out on these days for the city.
The procession has started from the Plaza del Mercado, next to the co-cathedral of La Redonda, where the steps will begin to arrive again around ten at night.
Little by little from the Market Square the steps of the little donkey have left, Prayer in the olive grove, Flagellation, Encounter, Mary Magdalene, Jesus Nazareno, Christ of the Seven Words, Holy Christ of the Souls, The Descent, The Piedad, the Holy Sepulcher and Our Lady of Solitude.
“For us, Good Friday is the most important day of Holy Week,” Francisco José Marín, the Big Brother of the Brotherhood of Logroño’s Brotherhood, explained to EFE, who stressed the importance of this procession “in which practically all the brethren”.