Brotherhoods

In everyday life when Seville He speaks of brotherhoods it 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 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 the 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 Easter brotherhoods 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 perform 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, -in internal cults celebrated dates set by their rules – , next to triduums to your pictures or principal functions.

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