Responsories for Holy Week Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively, rather than on a sequence of names referring to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday respectively. The responsories following each lesson of these matins (so also 27) were usually sung, and these are the Tenebrae Responsoria, or the Responsories for Holy Week. The name of a collection of such responsories may also refer to the Holy Triduum, as in Orlande de Lassus' "". Maundy Thursday is the fifth day of the Holy Week (Latin: Feria V or Feria Quinta). In Latin the feast is also indicated as "In Cœna Domini" ("At the meal
Holy Week in Seville Holy Week in Seville Holy Week in Seville is known as "Semana Santa de Sevilla". It is one of the city’s two biggest annual festivals, the other being the "Feria de Abril" (April Fair), which follows two weeks later. It is celebrated in the week leading up to Easter (Holy Week among Christians), and features the procession of "pasos", floats of lifelike wooden sculptures of individual scenes of sorrowfull Mysteries of the Rosary, or images of the grieving Virgin Mary. Some of the sculptures are of great antiquity and are considered artistic masterpieces, as well as being culturally and spiritually