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Seville cancels 2021 Easter Week processions
Culture 30/12/2020
Seville cancels 2021 Easter Week processions

After the cancellation of Seville's Feria de Abril announced by the city's mayor a week ago, it was only a question of time before the famous Holy Week processions were also cancelled because of the coronavirus...

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Easter in Spain
Religion 20/03/2006
Easter in Spain

To the solemn, persistent beat of a single drum, hundreds of men wearing pointed hoods that cover their faces parade through narrow streets bearing huge crucifixes, whilst women dressed in black stand silently and watch...

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`Pope Gregorio XVII´ dies in southern Spain
Religion 23/03/2005
`Pope Gregorio XVII´ dies in southern Spain

The leader of a secretive Spanish religious sect, who once claimed that the Vatican was controlled by the devil, has died at the sect´s headquarters in the southern Spanish village of El Palmar de Troya (photo) near...

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