Santo Entierro

 

Santo Entierro

 

The usual highlight of Good Friday is the Santo Entierro ("holy internment"), which is the name of both the rite and the wooden or resin sculpture of the dead Christ lying supine used in this Hispanic custom. Comparable to the Eastern Orthodox practice of processing the epitaphion, the calandra or bier carrying the Santo Entierro is brought about town, normally followed by a retinue of saints connected with the Passion narrative such as Peter and John the Evangelist. Tradition dictates that the Virgin Mary, dressed as the mourning Mater Dolorosa, is always the last image in the procession regardless of the number of statues involved.

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur

 

 

Holy Week procession

(Good Friday)

Camaligan Camarines, Sur