{"id":55335,"date":"2024-03-29T21:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55335"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:08:21","slug":"two-rehearsals-of-the-spanish-legion-for-holy-week-that-are-not-usually-seen-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/29\/two-rehearsals-of-the-spanish-legion-for-holy-week-that-are-not-usually-seen-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Two rehearsals of the Spanish Legion for Holy Week that are not usually seen in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/23\/spain-the-events-of-holy-week-2024-with-the-armed-forces-and-the-security-forces\/\">the different Spanish military units that parade in Holy Week processions<\/a>, the Legion is undoubtedly the best known.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/28\/some-excellent-photos-and-the-complete-video-of-the-legions-landing-in-malaga\/\">Some excellent photos and the complete video of the Legion's landing in Malaga<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/26\/the-spanish-marine-infantry-and-its-striking-procession-step-in-cartagena\/\">The Spanish Marine Infantry and its striking procession step in Cartagena<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every year, members of the four legionary thirds parade in different cities.<\/strong> In the case of Malaga, the thirds take turns each year to escort their patron, the Christ of the Good Death. <strong>The legionnaires' parades on these dates provoke great admiration<\/strong> and always attract the attention of the media. But behind those shows there is a lot of work to make everything go perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CharryTVRonda\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CharryTV Ronda<\/a> showed us <strong>the rehearsals of the spenders of the X Flag \"Mill\u00e1n Astray\" of the Tercio \"Alejandro Farnesio\" 4th of the Legion<\/strong>, which is based in Ronda (M\u00e1laga). The Legion's squads of spenders not only parade, but also do acrobatics with their CETME C rifles. <strong>The video includes at the end an interview with the corporal who leads this squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Legi\u00f3n Ronda: La escuadra de gastadores de la X Bandera, se prepara para Semana Santa\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpQ_qsPfLjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we can see some screenshots of this interesting video<\/strong>, which has already had more than 100,000 views:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53619395689_178c5f9705_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53619395674_1c2edcbf3b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53619058436_425cfe2dd4_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ofa-tv\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OFAtV<\/a> has published a video in which we see <strong> the rehearsals of the VIII Flag \"Col\u00f3n\" of the Tercio \"Don Juan de Austria\" 3rd of the Legion<\/strong>for the transfer of the Christ of the Good Death of Mena in Malaga, without a doubt the most famous event of all the acts of Holy Week in which the Legion participates. <strong>In this video there is also an interview with the corporal who leads the legionaries who carry the cross<\/strong>, a veteran who has been in the Legion for 33 years and who has been carrying the Christ of the Good Death in Malaga for 29 years:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ENSAYOS Cristo de la Buena Muerte + ENTREVISTA Cabo 1\u00ba Veterano. VIII Bandera - LA LEGI\u00d3N\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t3qVNNhUmCw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The videos are in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the different Spanish military units that parade in Holy Week processions, the Legion is undoubtedly the best known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[14891,10557,17422,8572,8009,8007,13166],"class_list":["post-55335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-holy-week","tag-spanish-army","tag-spanish-legion","tag-tercio-alejandro-farnesio-no4-de-la-legion","tag-tercio-don-juan-de-austria-no3-de-la-legion","tag-viii-bandera-colon","tag-x-bandera-millan-astray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}