Known is the Catholic faith of the right-hander and his link to two brotherhoods, the Esperanza de Triana and the Redemption. Francisco explains to La Vanguardia that he appears as costalero in El beso de Judas and El Cristo de las Tres CaÃdas: “I have been smelling like Holy Week since January, when we began rehearsals. I love it, first because it is my faith as a Christian and second because of the passion with which they live in those moments. He is overpowering and gives goosebumps. Of course, the staging of Sevilleâ€.
The Christ of the Three Falls is an image of Jesus carrying the wood at the moment he falls for the third time during the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. It is located in the Capilla de los Marineros, headquarters of the Brotherhood of Hope of Triana, and is a penance station in the cathedral of Seville during the early hours of Good Friday. The kiss of Judas, of the Brotherhood of the Redemption -whose headquarters is the church of Santiago el Mayor- and does penance station on the afternoon of Holy Monday. It is a sculptural group that represents the moment in which the apostle Judas Iscariot kisses Jesus as a sign for him to be arrested by the Romans.
What is the experience of being a costalero like, what do you live carrying the step on your shoulders? “Under there each one has his life, his experiences, his ideology… But we all feel the same, we suffer and cry for the same. It is a unique moment in which we are all equal. Well, the tallest ones are on top and the shortest ones go behind (laughs). In that special moment, I understand that God is thereâ€.
These first days of Holy Week we have already seen the bullfighter watching a procession on Palm Sunday sharing a balcony with his ex, Eugenia MartÃnez de Irujo, mother of his eldest daughter. The ex-partner has had a cordial relationship for a long time.
