The gesture of some people throwing petals onto Pureza Street in Seville, although they were intended to fall on Esperanza de Triana, has generated a significant stir on social networks, where many brothers have criticized an action that was directed at the image, which He was left without going out last morning due to the threat of rain.
Since last night the brotherhood announced that it was suspending the processional exit, the reactions of the brothers waiting for the image were diverse, but the majority of criticism has gone against the decision to throw the petals into the street, which has been described by some as “shameful.”
Nor has it gone unnoticed that there were people who shouted for the Virgin to be brought to the doorway, at least so that she could be seen from the street.
Such has been the impact that these reactions have had that the word ‘Purity’ has been trending since early morning on the social network
“I have gone hundreds of times to the chapel, completely empty. The brotherhood makes the most complicated decision in years, in the hardest Holy Week in years and they start shouting and throwing petals at the public,” writes a brother.
“What happened last night on Pureza Street was shameful, the three usual children looking for their little minute of glory,” says another message, while others defended the fact of having thrown the petals on the street, against the idea of ??giving them to someone. brotherhood that will come out this Good Friday.
“Let’s see, the petalá has been bought with the money of the people who organize it, they have no obligation to give it to another brotherhood if they don’t want to. For me it is the best thing they have done, that it stays on their Pureza street “says one Internet user.
Oblivious to this controversy, hundreds of people have visited early in the morning the headquarters of the brotherhoods that did not go out yesterday, Thursday or during the early morning, to contemplate the images still in their steps, where they will be at least during the end. of the week, until they return to their altars of worship.
Since nine in the morning, the queues in front of temples such as the Basilica de la Macarena or the Gran Poder are the predominant trend in the Andalusian capital, with people sometimes braving the rain to be able to see images that they have not been able to walk. through the streets like every year.
Some saetas have even been heard, such as that of the singer Fernando Castro, who has visited the Cristo de la Expiración -El Cachorro-, who will leave this afternoon if the rain does not prevent it, and wanted to give him an saeta composed and performed by him right at the doors of the temple, in full view of the dozens of people waiting to see the image.
