Cabildo making hours

In December 1604, Sevilla was held at the Diocesan Synod convoked by Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara, in which chapter 23, “The celebration misarum”, some crucial aspects that eventually set were regulated Holy Week, largely, It has reached our days.

There he set, among other issues of great interest, the vicar and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Seville should point out the streets where each Brotherhood must go, and the time of departure. The wording of the title synodal stated as follows: “We sent our people proviewfinder with him often and usually ajuntar for this purpose in this city, and in other places of our Archbishopric where there is more than a procession, Vicar, and where there is none the oldest Cura, point them to the streets where each has to go and time to be out”. As it is clear from its content, this practice was already established for some time, but it is now when it becomes mandatory institutionalizes and what we still call “Making Cabildo Hours”.

Since the second half of the eighteenth century the custom of printing the list of the penitential Brotherhoods won, indicating its canonical venue and date and time of departure, tradition that has been preserved, even with higher data prolijidad, because today the whole itinerary of each Brotherhood is reflected, and departure times, step input and four points of the official race: Bell, Plaza de San Francisco, San Miguel Gate and Puerta de Palos.

It is “signaling hours” was taking place, originally, Holy Tuesday, in the Chapel of the Handmaids of the Holy Church Cathedral, constituting a court composed of the Provisor with its Prosecutor and the President of the council with any of his lieutenants, Assisted Notario, Secretary and other officers of these ecclesiastical and secular authorities. All concurred Elder Brothers, and in some cases, Stewards, as now they do some senior Government Representatives. Measures taken the extended duplicate record for the files of both jurisdictions. Since the founding of the General Council of brotherhoods, It is his secretary who is responsible for taking minutes, and its president is part of the table.

From 1844 the act began to unfold in the cathedral and from Antecabildo 1880 its celebration moved to the Saturday of Passion. Subsequently, and in the twentieth century, his discourse was known in the Sacristy, in the Chapter House and, several years, in the Royal Chapel, anticipating his call until Sunday before the Easter Proclamation, this is, fourteen days before Palm Sunday.

formal character and practical functionality merge in this Cabildo Making Hours, a genuinely Sevillian institution that four centuries have passed, from the episcopate of Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara to Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo.