Holy Week
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.
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Purpose and description
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.
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.
What it is for: Commemorating the passion and death of Jesus before Easter.
It can be explain days and liturgies; relay date calculation; describe regional traditions; distinguish related periods.
Distinguishing features
Moveable week
Passion commemorations
Processions and brotherhoods
Regional traditions
What it looks like
Processions with floats, hooded penitents, palm branches and sawdust carpets; church services with stripped altars.
Physical character
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
How it is recognised
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
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
precedes -
includes -
is contrasted with -
In practice
Families and kinds
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday and Easter Vigil
regional Semana Santa traditions
Standards and regulation
Liturgical books of each church
Public holiday laws for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday by country
Intangible heritage listings for some traditions
Failure modes and hazards
Stating wrong dates for a given year
Disrespectful framing of devotion
Treating local celebrations as kinds
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Holy Week is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is Holy Week, and how does it differ from Lent, Easter Week, Passover and secular spring holidays? definition
- Is the question about dates in a given year, liturgy, travel to processions or history? boundary
Local traditions
Named celebrations.
Local traditions
Local traditions.
- What are the Holy Week traditions of Alcala de Henares, Guatemala and Quetzaltenango? definition
- Which entry fits the specific celebration? action
Liturgy Days and liturgy.
Attribution.
Days
The days.
Days
Days.
- What does each day of Holy Week commemorate? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Dates
Date calculation.
Dates
Dates.
- How is the date of Easter calculated, and why do Western and Orthodox dates differ? measurement
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Traditions Processions.
Sources.
Spain
Spanish Semana Santa.
Spain
Spain.
- How do cofradias organise processions in Spain? provenance
- Which entry fits Holy Week in Seville? action
Americas
Latin America and Philippines.
Americas
Americas.
- What are alfombras in Guatemala and Holy Week practices in the Philippines? provenance
- Which entry fits Holy Week in the Philippines? action
Context Society.
Attribution.
Heritage
Heritage and tourism.
Heritage
Heritage.
- How are Holy Week traditions protected as heritage and managed for tourism? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful? boundary
History
History.
History
History.
- How did Holy Week observances develop from early Jerusalem liturgy, as Egeria described? provenance
- Which entry fits Egeria? action
What the second pass must settle
- 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?