{"id":2195,"date":"2011-04-18T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2011-04-18T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T00:02:02","slug":"holy-week-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/holy-week-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Week, <em>Semana Santa<\/em>,\u00a0for Christians all over the world, started yesterday. \u00a0The Brazilian Catholic population celebrates <em>Semana Santa <\/em>like most other countries, but a few special plays around the country makes the Brazilian celebrations unique &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Prociss\u00e3o do Fogar\u00e9u em Goi\u00e1s Velho<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This procession is held on Holy Thursday, and is mostly famous in <em>Goi\u00e1s Velho<\/em>, in the state of Goi\u00e1s, especially for its reenactment of Christ&#8217;s arrest, and <em>farricocos<\/em>, men in robes carrying torches (instead of soldiers). Here&#8217;s a video from the celebration a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trinta mil pessoas participam da Prociss\u00e3o do Fogar\u00e9u na cidade de Goi\u00e1s.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H2AZVONZNJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Paix\u00e3o de Cristo em Nova Jerusal\u00e9m<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>All week during Holy Week, there is a reenactment of the Passion of Christ (<em>Paix\u00e3o de Cristo) <\/em>in <em>Nova Jerusal\u00e9m, <\/em>an open air theater town, in <em>Brejo da Madre de Deus,<\/em> in the state of Pernambuco. It&#8217;s known to be the largest open air theater in the world, taking up 38 square miles and nine sets, overall.<\/p>\n<p>Starting off small in the 1950s, the plays have grown to having 50 actors, 500 extras, and 8,000 spectators for each performance. Below is a short clip from Nova Jerusalem &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paix\u00e3o de Cristo Nova Jerusal\u00e9m 2010 1\u00b0 parte\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJ_aK0wUokQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are many other plays all over the country, including smaller ones in small rural churches, as well as numerous other celebrations and traditions. Yet I feel the play or reenactment culture is alive in Brazil during Holy Week for Catholics and non-Catholics alike because of its theater going nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Week, Semana Santa,\u00a0for Christians all over the world, started yesterday. \u00a0The Brazilian Catholic population celebrates Semana Santa like most other countries, but a few special plays around the country makes the Brazilian celebrations unique &#8211; Prociss\u00e3o do Fogar\u00e9u em Goi\u00e1s Velho This procession is held on Holy Thursday, and is mostly famous in Goi\u00e1s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/holy-week-in-brazil\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[2648,1],"tags":[379349,2201,3879],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-holidays-culture","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-holiday","tag-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}