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In Girona, Holy Friday is celebrated Procession of the Holy Burial, which has been reported since the mid-eighteenth century, which involved more than 1,200 people, different brotherhoods of the city, and 119 Manaian soldiers, dressed in Roman legionaries and armed with spears, swords and shields parade solemnly hitting the ground with their spears to the...
This poster and the like were frequent in Spanish Catholic churches until the mid-60s. It reflects the national-Catholic obscurantism of the dictatorship of General Franco. This copy was hung in the Church of Sant Josep Oriol of Barcelona.