One of the major events of 2025 which goes directly into the annals of the brotherhoods. THE Large procession featuring the puppy In the Eternal City next to Esperanza de Málaga he left images for history. Then we summarize in a … Decalogue of photographic events experienced last May in the Vatican and the ruins of the most indisputable Romefrom the Colosseum to San Pedro, from the Via de San Gregorio to the Palatine.
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The Puppy, at Saint Peter’s in the Vatican
San Pedro, home of the puppy
Never has a sky of gold and marble had so many Good Friday colors. The Puppy’s gaze sought the imposing barrel vault of the main temple of Christianity as well as symbol of the strength of popular piety of Seville and this increased further last May in Rome. Just seeing him there was enough. Never before has an image of the Seville capital been placed under this roof. This will forever be remembered the silhouette of the crucified of Gijón before the Presentation of Romanelli and next to the funerary monuments of Benedict XV and Saint John XXIII, and the remains of Pope Pius X. It will forever be one of the greatest photos in the history of the brotherhoods of Seville.
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Thousands of people venerated the Hope of Malaga and the Little One in Rome
Seville on pilgrimage to Rome
While the Lion Cub waited inside St. Peter’s Basilica, next to the Virgin of Hope, hundreds of pilgrims waited at Castel Sant’Angelo to begin their walk. An entire archdiocese united around a devotion which is today more universal than ever and walk after the pilgrim’s cross along the Via de la Conciliazione. Were more than six hundred and there was no lack of ecclesiastical and governmental powers in the city either: from the archbishop to the center, through the mayor or the president of the Council. It was one of the images of the Puppy’s stay in Rome.
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The Puppy Traveling Inside San Pedro
Transfer inside San Pedro
It was natural for the city to take on these things, but it was in the Vatican. The Sevillians and the curious who settled there to discover the final moments of Puppy’s stay in San Pedro They will always remember what happened there, early in the afternoon of Friday May 16. The Christ of the Expiration and the Virgin of Hope had to leave the temple to head towards the Celimontana tent from where they would go in procession the next day. To do this, the priests and executors of the two corporations installed a curtain to ensure the necessary privacy at the time the transfer took place. SO, the crucified began to descend slowly with the new mechanism designed for the occasion. A silence took over everything and this was the prelude to the transfer through the interior of the temple. All of Seville was in the hands of the board members who carried the image.
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In the foreground, the Nazarene of León and in the background, the Puppy and Hope of Málaga.
A step and a throne
Until then, a similar image had never been produced: a walk next to a throne. The passage of the Puppy in front of the Throne of Hope of Malagathe largest of those that exist and monument of Holy Week in Malaga. It is inside the tent which would serve as an improvised temple for this historic procession. Two ways of telling popular piety throughout history brought together under the same roof and in the same context. For the first time ever, the two Holy Weeks would form the same procession. This also happened thousands of kilometers from Andalusia.
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El Cachorro, between the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine
In front of the great Colosseum
It was the image everyone was waiting for. From Via Claudia advanced the Grande Cortège, a section reserved for the public which, until its last section, could not see the Puppy. There the great Colosseum awaited him, the most important monument in history of humanity and emblem of the martyrdom of thousands of Christians during the centuries of the Roman Empire. There, face to face, they stood an emblem of universal imagery which has had its home in Triana for more than three centuries and which at that time found itself confronted for the first and, certainly, for the last time in its history, with the great turning point in the life of Vespasian. Gámez Laserna, Ruiz Gijón, Guzmán Bejarano, Belmonte, José María Leal and the entire Holy Week of Seville were present at that precise moment.
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The Lion Cub and the Arch of Constantine
The Arch of Constantine
He was advancing on the road to San Gregorio. A row of century-old pines They served as the setting for the most beautiful theater ever told. Never has everything had more meaning than these meters of journey where the Lion Cub walked on the foundations of the most imposing Rome. The photographers knew the perspective wouldn’t deceive. Everything was measured and the Arch of Constantine, at the back of the forum and imposing in its figure, became for a few moments the best altar of worship that the Christ of the Expiration never had.
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The sun hits the puppy between the arches of the Colosseum
The sun, at the right time
The dreaded rain appeared lightly for the first time. Christ began to climb the steep slope to the Mazzini monument where the authorities’ stand was located. The entire Circus Maximus was at his feet. Turina sounded with the most resounding “Margot” which many will remember during their lives. The mayor of Rome was surprised before the time he lived. Everything was sublime. The ride ended and the Cub turned 90 degrees to continue its journey, then the sun appeared between the clouds of old Rome. Only Rechi’s photo can better describe this moment.
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Palatine Puppy
The Christ of the Expiration walked among the oldest ruins of Rome. All The Circus Maximus kissed the crucified of Triana like the hundreds of Sevillians and people who came to see him at a course without fences. Sevilla took the reins to bring back the Palatino Cub and begin to close this never imagined story. This was another of the photos from this Great Procession.
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El Cachorro, during the rainy section
The rain
Even the rain was beautiful. It was one of the words heard among the noise that surrounded the Gitano de la Cava on his return along the long Via de San Gregorio. At the end of Circus Maximus, heaven closed to place all darkness on the crucified of a Good Friday 2,000 years ago. At that moment, the brotherhood decided to give priority passage to the Lord who was advancing decisively among his procession of candles. looking for shelter under the tent The rain was also in Rome to see the Lion Cub.
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The Puppy, back at the Colosseum
“Twilight of the Gods” at the Colosseum
The rain let up for a few minutes and the night flooded everything. The last rays of the sun were hidden behind the imposing ancient mass of arches and stones. It all started to end after an hour a priceless emotional hangover which did not lack the joy, the tension and the force of time. The passage was stopped for more than ten minutes in front of the Arch of Constantine. The hammer rang in Ismael Vargas’ hand. The pace picked up and a rim shot set off everything that followed. The symphony orchestra they formed Oliva de Salteras and Puebla del Río He began to play the chords of Font de Anta’s anthem for the sorrow of San Juan de la Palma. “Bitterness” sounded. The rest is already written.
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