Dozens of people gather in Seville to protest against the Holy Week poster

EFE Seville

Seville

Updated Saturday, February 3, 2024-14:36

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Several dozen people gathered this Saturday in the

Plaza del Triunfo in Seville

, next to the cathedral and the Real Alcázar, to celebrate a religious act of reparation for the poster announcing Holy Week in Seville.

Those attending the event gathered

in front of a

banner with the slogan "No to the blasphemous poster" , and said prayers led by a priest.

The artist and his model talk about the controversy with the Sevillian Holy Week poster

Some of the attendees knelt while praying and others carried crucifixes or Spanish flags.

The poster, the work of the Sevillian painter

Salustiano García

, represents a young and beautiful resurrected Christ covered slightly from the waist down and has sparked controversy in some sectors, who consider it blasphemous and disrespectful or that it does not represent Holy Week.