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One of the most intense moments of Easter Week in Malaga is without doubt the transfer of Jesús Cautivo and La Virgen de la Trinidad to their processional floats following early morning mass on the esplanade of the church of San Pablo. It begins at 8:00 but the entry of the images into the Hospital Civil where they are seen by the patients at 9:30 should not be missed.
Guide for the Holy Week in Malaga 2012, Spain. All relevant information about processions, societies, routes and maps of the Holy Week of Malaga 2012.Time Schedule of the Holy Week of Malaga 2012. The Holy Week will start on 1st April (Palm Sunday) and will end on 8th April 2012 (Easter Sunday).
Friday 23 March Rescate: 21'00h . Capilla, C/ Agua, Casa Hermandad Estudiantes: 22'00h.San Agustín,Granada, Pl. del Siglo, Molina Lario, Santa María, Císter,Alcazabilla , Casa Hermandad.
Saturday 24 March Cena:11'00h. Pl. de los Mártires, Santa Lucia, Granada,Pl. Constitución, Larios, Dr D. Manuel Perez- Bryan, Pl. de las Flores, Fco de Rioja, C/ Nueva,Especerías, Salvago, Compañía, Pl. San Ignacio,Compañia,Casa Hermandad
Nueva Esperanza:12'15h. Parroquia San Joaquin y Santa Ana , Camino Castillejos, Salvador Barberá, Ministerio de la Vivienda, Rosas, Salvador Barberá, Camino Castillejos, Casa Hermandad.
Sunday 25 March
Sangre:11'00h. Iglesia San Felipe, Parras,Molinillo,Alderete,San Bartolomé,, Cruz del Molinillo, Ollerías, Dos Aceras, Casa Hermandad.
Prendimiento: 17'30h.Pl.Capuchinos, E.Domínguez Ávila, San Juan Bosco, visita al Hospital Sagrado Corazón, Emilio Carreras, Monserrat, Alameda Barceló, E.Domínguez Ávila, Pl.Capuchinos, Alameda de Capuchinos, M Bueno Lara, Pl. Maestro Artola, San Millán y Casa Hermandad.
Rocío:18'00h.San Lázaro, Amargura, Pl. Alfonso XII, San Patricio, Xto de la Epidemia, Pl.de la Victoria, Párroco Fco Ruiz Furest, Pl. Marcelino Champagnat, Casa Hermandad.
Pollinica:18'30h.San Agustín, Granada, Méndez Núñez, Pl. Uncibay, Pl. del Teatro, Puerta de Buenaventura, Álamos, Dos Aceras, Guerrero, Gaona, Parras, Casa Hermandad.
Huerto:18'45h.Mártires, Santa Lucía, Pl Constitución, Especerías, Nueva, Pl Félix Sáenz, Sebastián Souvirón, Pasillo Santa Isabel, Puente de Santo Domingo, Pl. Religiosa Filipense Dolores Márquez, Jorge Lamothe, Pl. Virgen de la Concepción.
Entronización Stmo Cristo de la Agonía:19'30h.Oratorio de las Penas, Pl. Virgen de las Penas.
Viñeros:20'00h.Iglesia Conventual de la Aurora y Divina Providencia, Andrés Pérez, Carretería, Tejón y Rodríguez, Comedias, Pl.de los Mártires, Ciriaco y Paula, Estación en la Iglesia Parroquial,Comedias, Nosquera, Muro de las Catalinas, Andrés Pérez, Carretería, Biedmas, Pl.de los Viñeros,Casa Hermandad.
Piedad:20'00h.Capilla de Ntra Sra de la Piedad, Cruz del Molinillo, Convento Madres Mercedarias, San Bartolomé, Capuchinos, Cruz del Molinillo, Alderete, Casa Hermandad.
Vía Crucis Esperanza:21'00h.Basílica de la Esperanza, Pl.Lola Carrera-Nazareno Verde, Salón de Tronos.
Mothering Sunday is a time when children pay respect to their Mothers. Children often give their Mothers a gift and a card.
When is Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day)?
Mothering Sunday (Mother's Day) is always the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Why is Mothering Sunday on different dates each year?
Mothering Sunday is not a fixed day because it is always the middle Sunday in Lent (which lasts from Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter Sunday). This means that Mother's Day in the UK will fall on different dates each year and sometimes even fall in different months.
Mothering Sunday has been celebrated in the UK on the fourth Sunday in Lent since at least the 16th century.
The History behind Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday was also known as 'Refreshment Sunday', Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England) or 'Mid-Lent Sunday'. It was a day in Lent when the fasting rules were relaxed, in honour of the 'Feeding of the Five Thousand', a story in the Christian Bible.
After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print.
Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were once sold door-to-door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed as proud fixtures in American homes will be discontinued, company executives said.
In an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.
The Britannica, the oldest continuously published encyclopedia in the English language, has become a luxury item with a $1,395 price tag. It is frequently bought by embassies, libraries and research institutions, and by well-educated, upscale consumers who felt an attachment to the set of bound volumes. Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they are bought.
The 2010 edition had more than 4,000 contributors, including Arnold Palmer (who wrote the entry on the Masters tournament) and Panthea Reid, professor emeritus at Louisiana State University and author of the biography “Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf” (who wrote about Virginia Woolf).
The theme for World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2012 isOur money, our rights: campaigning for real choice in financial services
The aim
of WRCD is to celebrate solidarity within the international consumer rights
movement.
History
of the WCRD
On 15 March 1963, President John F Kennedy
gave an address to the US congress in which he formally addressed the issue of
consumer rights. He was the first world leader to do so, and the consumer
movement now marks 15 March every year as a means of raising global awareness
about consumer rights.
It marks the date in 1962 President
John F Kennedy first outlined the definition of Consumer Rights.
'Consumers by definition, include us all,' Kennedy said in his Congressional Statement, 'They are the largest economic group, affecting and affected by almost every public and private economic decision. Yet they are the only important group... whose views are often not heard.'
The WCRD was first
celebrated in 1983 and became an important annual occasion for mobilizing
citizen action and solidarity within the international consumer movement. The
day is an opportunity for promoting the basic rights of all consumers,
demanding that those rights are respected and protected and protesting about
the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them.
On the 11th March 1702, Britain’s first newspaper – the Daily Courant – began publishing from rooms above the White Hart pub in Fleet Street. It was more like a leaflet than a newspaper as it was just a single page with two collumns.
Fleet Street
Publishing started in Fleet Street around 1500 when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up a printing shop near Shoe Lane.
Fleet Street was the home of the British press until the 1980s. Most of the major national papers were located here. Since the digital printing revolution, most have moved, and only Reuters remains. The Times and The Sun moved to Wapping. The Guardian went to the Isle of Dogs, and the rest went to London’s Docklands.
Fleet Street is named after the Fleet River, one of the many rivers that now flow beneath London's streets to the Thames.
Who was WilliamCaxton?
William Caxton was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England.
On this day in 2004, 191 people are killed aATTnd nearly 2,000 are injured when 10 bombs explode on four trains in three Madrid-area train stations during a busy morning rush hour.
The bombs were later found to have been detonated by mobile phones. The attacks, the deadliest against civilians on European soil since the 1988 Lockerbie airplane bombing, were initially suspected to be the work of the Basque separatist militant group ETA. This was soon proved incorrect as evidence mounted against an extreme Islamist militant group loosely tied to, but thought to be working in the name of, al-Qaida. Investigators believe that all of the blasts were caused by improvised explosive devices that were packed in backpacks and brought aboard the trains.
The terrorists seem to have targeted Madrid's Atocha Station, at or near which seven of the bombs were detonated. The other bombs were detonated aboard trains near the El Poso del Tio Raimundo and Santa Eugenia stations, most likely because of delays in the trains' journeys on their way to Atocha. Three other bombs did not detonate as planned and were later found intact.
The attacks took place two days before a major Spanish election, in which anti-war Socialists swept to power. The new government, led by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, removed Spanish troops from Iraq, with the last leaving the country in May 2004.
In memory of the victims of the March 11 bombings, a memorial forest of olive and cypress trees was planted at the El Retiro park in Madrid, near the Atocha railway station.
