the Negritos

Antigua, Pontifical and Franciscan Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Nazarenes of the Holy Christ of the Foundation, and Our Lady of the Angels

Chapel of Angels (C / Recadero).
2 Steps ( Christ of the Foundation and Our Lady of the Angels).

FOUNDATION: 1393

IMAGES: The Crucified is Andres Ocampo (1622). The Virgin is anonymous carving (XVIII) remodeled by Dubé de Luque (1984).

BROTHERS: 2.329

ELDEST BROTHER (in the Brotherhood it is known as Mayor): Eduardo Garcia.

NAZARENOS: 875

FOREMEN: Antonio Santiago.

COSTALEROS: 29/35

DURATION: It takes to go 45 mins aprox.

COATS: white, tail, with girdles and blue scapular.

MUSIC: Chapel in Christ and the Band “It is. Maria de las Nieves” Olivares in the Virgin.

PREMIERES 2017: The mantle of Our Lady of the Angels looks after the restoration which has been subjected in the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage. This is an embroidered piece by the Trinitarian Sisters according to the design of Juan Miguel Sánchez 1961. They have discovered that the ivory has belonged to a male elephant about 50 years in Central Africa.

PREMIERES 2016: flags Pontifical, Conceptionist and Passion. Restoration saya from the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage.

PLACE DESTACADADO: Departure.

OBSERVATIONS: The Negritos has two steps with own label. In the first goes the old image of Christ Foundation. The passage of the Virgin of the Angels has exotic embroideries, with some oriental style evocation, Seville is the only modernist style designed by artist Juan Miguel Sánchez, which it has recently been enriched with goldsmith Ramón León. The pallium passage is one of the few examples of cutting-edge design of Holy Week in Seville. The new flag is embroidered Pontifical coat of Pope Urban VIII who in 1625 recognized the rights and Rules of brotherhood. And in the Concepcionista the names of the brothers appear 2 Y 3 Fernando perpetuity Pedro Molina and Francisco Moreno, they were sold as slaves to pay cults honoring the Immaculate Conception 1615.

HISTORICAL FACTS: The Brotherhood is the oldest in Sevilla, it was founded in the late fourteenth century (Cardinal Mena based on 1393 a brotherhood of Gloria in the Hospital of Los Angeles to meet black people) .  It merged with a brotherhood of penance also blacks, founded in 1554.  In 1604 erected the present chapel. His Excellency Mr.. Archbishop of Seville, D. Juan Jose Asenjo, He is the older brother.