The Great Power returns to the streets in the first great reunion of Seville with its traditions

If it were not for the masks that many pedestrians continue to look prudent, hardly any trace of the pandemic would be observed in the streets of Seville, which has just premiered this week at the expected

, which eliminates the restrictions due to Covid in all spaces. public and private. But normality is definitely put to the test this Saturday, when the city is reunited in a big way with its traditions on the occasion of the exit in procession of the image of

, which will travel on an

to

, one of the environments most punished by marginalization and abandonment in the city, at the top (along with the Three Thousand Homes) in the

of the poorest neighborhoods in Spain.

The event has all the elements for the city to turn it into a historical landmark, beyond its religious connotations. In the first place, because Seville has been a year and a half without being able to enjoy the processions in the street, with two suspended editions of the processions at Easter. This Saturday is not the first procession after the Covid, as the Archbishopric lifted the veto on the occasion of the departure of the

on September 19. But it will be the first with the power to attract a volume of faithful comparable to that of a Good Thursday or Good Friday. There is a desire for the streets and there is a desire for processions among devotees, especially, but also among thousands of fans and curious people who will want to witness a unique show of tradition and popular fervor.

In addition, on this occasion, the appointment has an important sociological connotation because it will allow the official Seville, always very absorbed in the contemplation of the monumental wealth and the uses of its historic center, to turn its gaze towards Tres Barrios (

) and

, who rise up in that shady area of ​​large cities that you only look at when a tragedy occurs, or when the INE publishes the classification of neighborhoods according to their income level. And Tres Barrios is always at the bottom of the table.

The Great Power moves to marginal Seville and returns the visit to so many parishioners who have come for years to the temple in the

to pray to the one who is also popularly known as the

. In different temples of Tres Barrios-Amate (Blanca Paloma, La Candelaria and Santa Teresa) the image will remain until November 5, in what the brotherhood has defined as an

on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the making of the carving. religious, and whose objective is to take its message

, to which few Sevillians who were not born or raised in these parts have ever looked at it in their lives.

The first transfer will take place this Saturday, starting at 9 in the morning.

Jesús del Gran Poder will go out on a litter, on the shoulders of several dozen residents who have registered for a long time to participate in shifts in the procession to the

.

Fifty pairs of devotees carrying candles will open the procession.

There will be no costaleros in this transfer, nor in those that will take place on October 23 to the

and on the 30th to the

.

On November 5, the image will return

from the city but will spend one night in the Cathedral before returning definitively, on November 6, to its basilica.

This last transfer will be made in the processional step.

The city has been fine-tuning all the safety and traffic devices for a street event like this for weeks. To the usual protocols, which in Seville are more than filmed under normal circumstances, we must now add those linked to the pandemic situation, with the advantage that, as it is an extraordinary route, which

, in part it will run through wide streets and avenues, where it will be easier to manage the crowds.

The plan activated by the Seville City Council has half a thousand personnel from emergencies, services and municipal companies. "This is a unique event because, in a certain way, it represents the

and because of what the presence of the Great Power in the street means in our city," explained the mayor, Juan Espadas. Public transport will be strengthened throughout the day and buses from other municipalities within and outside the province are expected to arrive.

Like almost all Sevillian brotherhoods, the Gran Poder brotherhood has its own YouTube channel, which will broadcast the entire route live. In addition, to facilitate the actual location of the procession, a geolocation system has been installed that will allow to know instantly the place where the procession takes place and which can be accessed through the following link: Follow-up SANTA MISIÓN 2021 | Brotherhood of the Great Power | Official Website (gran-poder.es) As

wrote

, "Seville is a city with conservative tastes but at the same time possible and friendly".

In reality, the visit of the Great Power to Tres Barrios-Amate was supposed to have taken place in 2020, but it was suspended like so many other public events around the world.

The fact that it is resumed coinciding with what seems to be

gives the extraordinary exit a new meaning, in the manner of the thanksgiving liturgies.

And it gives the city the opportunity to test itself as if it were

, facing the first post-covid Easter, that of 2022. But, above all, it supposes the verification (still pending confirmation) of that there is no harm that a hundred years last.

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