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EASTER - SEMANA SANTA-Resultado de imagen de Spanish Holy Week vocabulary


VOCABULARY
Cuaresma - Lent
Semana Santa (época) - Easter (Eastertide)
Semana Santa (la semana) - Easter Week o Holy Week
Domingo de Ramos - Palm Sunday
Jueves Santo - Maunday Thursday
Viernes Santo - Good Friday (probablemente viene de "God's Friday")
La Crucifixión - The Crucifixion
La Pasión de Cristo - The Passion of Christ
ayuno, oración, penitencia - fasting, prayer, penance
La Última Cena - The Last Supper
Calvario - Calvary
Jesús Cristo - Jesus Christ
Jesús en la cruz - Jesus on the Cross
La Resurrección - The Resurrection
Domingo de Resurrección - Easter Day / Easter Sunday
Procesiones de Semana Santa - Easter processions (Easter parades*)
Conejillo de Pascua - Easter Bunny
Huevo de Pascua - Easter egg
Float (pasos) of Virgin Mary carried during Semana Santa (Holy Week), Seville, Andalucia, Spain, Europe Stock PhotoIr a misa - go to mass
Pasos de Semana Santa - Easter floats.
La Virgen - The Virgin Maria, The Madonna.
Hojas de la palmera - palm leaves
Basilica - basilica
Cirio - candle
Morris Dancing 
Resultado de imagen de Spanish Holy Week vocabulary
Explicar la Semana Santa en inglés.La lista de traducciones de terminología de las procesiones de Semana Santa termina aquí por no existir buenas traducciones de ciertas palabras pero quizás sirva de ayuda una explicación en inglés de: costalero (people who carry the floats), nazareno (robed, hooded figures; penitents carrying crosses with hood, tunic and belt), cofradía, hermandad (church brotherhoods), chicotá (the distance between two stops of the float), arriar (halt, rest for the carriers of the float), capirote, penitente ("penitent" with tall, pointed hoods with eye-holes), talla de la Virgen o del Cristo (Maria or Christ effigy), la Madrugá (early Good Friday morning), saeta (a haunting lament to the Holy Mother sung from a balcony), Los "armaos" - Roman centurions, ruta oficial (official route), misterio (tableaux of bible scenes), al Cielo con Ella (comment from the capataz to the costaleros ordering them to lift the float with the Virgen Mary), pestiños, torrijas (sweet cakes typical at Easter time in Spain).




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