Cofradias

In everyday life when speaking of Seville brotherhoods refers to the same, but it is interesting to know that the associations of the faithful who have been erected to exercise some work of piety or charity, are called pious unions, and if they are also formed as an organic body, called brotherhoods; while the brotherhoods are the brotherhoods have also been erected to the increase of public worship.

The brotherhoods of the Holy Week in Seville are therefore associations of Christian faithful, laity (men and women) and clergy or laity and clergy alone alone who have joined for purposes as diverse Christian worship in its many manifestations, the charity works- healthcare, burial and suffrage for the dead and penance of the brothers, etc.

The origin of Catholic brotherhoods born with Jesus and his apostles and disciples, or with Mary and the Apostles gathered in the Upper Room after the death and resurrection of Jesus, and go up today. The origin of the brotherhoods Holy Week or Passion is found in the late fifteenth century or XVI.

– Holy Week brotherhoods

We must differentiate it from other types of existing brotherhoods.
Easter brotherhoods or Passion born in the sixteenth century and consist of an association of faithful, in most cases exclusively lay, as a back elementos: first contemplation of the Passion and Death of Christ and, Secondly, imitation of the pains of Christ in his Passion and Death by a public penance for the realization of the procession of Penitence or held in one of the days of Holy Week.
Easter brotherhoods or Passion born to contemplate the Passion and Death of Christ and imitate through penitential acts

– CALL FOR WORSHIP

It is customary in the Sevillian brotherhoods make calls for cults through posters, which they are placed on the facades of temples belonging to the different brotherhoods and columns of the steps of the Seville Cathedral.

Brotherhoods activity does not stop throughout the year, celebrated internal cults -on the dates that mark their rules – , triduums with their images or main functions.

In the latter the brothers assistants formulate the protestation of faith. The levee and the holders Besapiés images brotherhoods represent a link between Seville and sororities.