Easter in Spain goes far beyond chocolate eggs and bunnies. It's a solemn yet vibrant commemoration of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, celebrated with the grandeur and dedication ...

In late March 2024, near the time the Christian holiday of Easter was observed, a European Easter tradition went viral on social media. A number of posts appeared to show Spanish and Italian Easter ...

ELCHE, Spain (AP) — Spain is getting ready for one of its most revered holiday periods of the year: Easter Week, which means thousands of colorful and noisy religious street processions that draw ...

Spain’s Holy Week is an annual tribute to the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods performing penance processions along the streets of Spanish cities and towns during ...

Mari Carmen Perez brushes palms to be used during Palm Sunday processions at a shop in Elche, eastern Spain, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Credit: Bernat Armangue/AP.) Listen ELCHE, Spain — Spain is ...

On Easter Sunday five years ago, Pierce Todd Withers attended the holiest of Christian celebratory masses at the famed Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. For the faithful, the ...

When he was blessing the Easter fire as part of the Easter Vigil, the priest’s vestments caught fire, burning 50% of his body, according to diocesan sources. Father Javier Sánchez, 60, from the ...

Father Javier Sánchez of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza in Spain died early this morning from burns he suffered when his liturgical vestments caught fire from a candle during the Easter Vigil on Saturday ...