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Holy Week

vr.tr.holy-week · thing-q131080

Let an agent explain Holy Week, relay its days, liturgies, date calculation and regional traditions from church and cultural sources with attribution, describe the named local celebrations as instances, and distinguish Holy Week from Lent, Easter Week or Bright Week, Passover and secular spring holidays.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context XCT.TME
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Understand What Holy Week is.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is Holy Week, and how does it differ from Lent, Easter Week, Passover and secular spring holidays? definition
  2. Is the question about dates in a given year, liturgy, travel to processions or history? boundary

Local traditions

Named celebrations.

Local traditions

Local traditions.

  1. What are the Holy Week traditions of Alcala de Henares, Guatemala and Quetzaltenango? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific celebration? action
Liturgy Days and liturgy.

Days

The days.

Days

Days.

  1. What does each day of Holy Week commemorate? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Dates

Date calculation.

Dates

Dates.

  1. How is the date of Easter calculated, and why do Western and Orthodox dates differ? measurement
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Traditions Processions.

Spain

Spanish Semana Santa.

Spain

Spain.

  1. How do cofradias organise processions in Spain? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Holy Week in Seville? action

Americas

Latin America and Philippines.

Americas

Americas.

  1. What are alfombras in Guatemala and Holy Week practices in the Philippines? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Holy Week in the Philippines? action
Context Society.

Heritage

Heritage and tourism.

Heritage

Heritage.

  1. How are Holy Week traditions protected as heritage and managed for tourism? provenance
  2. Is the presentation respectful? boundary

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did Holy Week observances develop from early Jerusalem liturgy, as Egeria described? provenance
  2. Which entry fits Egeria? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Cross-cutting context
Entry kind
thing
Plane
XCT
Domain
XCT.TME
Other names and narrower kinds
Cofradías de Semana Santa en Alcalá de Henares, Holy Week in Guatemala, Holy Week in Quetzaltenango

What it is Filled

The week before Easter in Christianity, commemorating the last days of Jesus from his entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, a moveable period whose dates follow the calculation of Easter and differ between Western and Eastern churches in many years; it is marked by liturgies and, especially in Spain, Latin America and the Philippines, by processions of religious brotherhoods, as in the Semana Santa confraternities of Alcala de Henares and the Holy Week celebrations of Guatemala and Quetzaltenango, where streets are covered with sawdust carpets called alfombras. The model presents traditions respectfully.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain Holy Week, relay its days, liturgies, date calculation and regional traditions from church and cultural sources with attribution, describe the named local celebrations as instances, and distinguish Holy Week from Lent, Easter Week or Bright Week, Passover and secular spring holidays.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Moveable week
  • Passion commemorations
  • Processions and brotherhoods
  • Regional traditions

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • State Holy Week dates without checking whether the Western or Eastern reckoning applies.
  • Mock or belittle Holy Week devotions and processions.
  • Treat one local celebration, such as a city's processions, as Holy Week itself.
  • Disrupt or record religious services against the wishes of the congregation.

Only with a human decision

  • Scheduling events on Holy Week days that may conflict with religious observance.

May

  • Give the dates of Holy Week for a stated year and church tradition.
  • Describe its days, from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, and their liturgies.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Holy Week is the most sacred time of the year for many Christians.
  • Holy Week has a history of being used to stir hostility toward Jews, which must not be repeated.

Who is affected

  • Christian believers
  • Religious communities
  • Jewish communities

Owners Filled

Steward

Nobody owns it; the churches set its observance.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q10692570 - registry parent class

related

  • thematic week - in registry terms
  • Easter
  • Good Friday
  • Lent

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.holy-week
  • Wikidata: Q131080 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131080)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • days: Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday note
  • date basis: computus of Easter note - Western and Eastern dates often differ
  • Sevilla Holy Week: Fiesta of International Tourist Interest note

Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Christian week before Easter
  • Semana Santa confraternities of Alcala de Henares, Holy Week in Guatemala, Holy Week in Quetzaltenango, Passion Week
  • Lent is the 40-day season; Easter Week follows Easter; Passover is the Jewish festival; spring holidays are secular
  • Processions with floats, hooded penitents, palm branches and sawdust carpets; church services with stripped altars.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • explain days and liturgies
  • relay date calculation
  • describe regional traditions
  • distinguish related periods

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Stating wrong dates for a given year
  • Disrespectful framing of devotion
  • Treating local celebrations as kinds

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Liturgical books of each church
  • Public holiday laws for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday by country
  • Intangible heritage listings for some traditions

Context of use required Filled

  • Commemorating the passion and death of Jesus before Easter.
  • Palm Sunday
  • Maundy Thursday
  • Good Friday
  • Holy Saturday and Easter Vigil
  • regional Semana Santa traditions

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q131080: Holy Week - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Holy Week - general description of the item

Open questions

  • The registry aliases for Alcala de Henares, Guatemala and Quetzaltenango should be split off as instances
  • How should Easter date tables be linked?
  • Should Eastern Holy Week be a separate entry?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q131080/spec.json