The origin of Holy Week as we know it today probably lies in the “Stations of the Cross of the Field”. Tradition tells that the Via Crucis of the “twelve seasons” It was the one that the Virgin had followed daily to remember the torment of her son. The procession left the palace on the seven Fridays that make up Lent, praying the members of the procession (penitents and flagellants with hoods or Nazarenes) as many creeds or Our Fathers as steps Christ took in his passion. The Via Crucis had its end at the Cruz del Campo. The current cross on the temple dates from 1571 and is the work of Juan Bautista Vázquez. This Via Crucis was a milestone in the history of the city's brotherhoods, when establishing, for the first time, a space marked for the development of public penance.
Some of the brotherhoods that existed at the beginning of the 16th century have survived to this day.:
- The silence, founded in 1340.
- The Hiniesta, refounded in 1879, comes from another brotherhood than from the 15th century
- the blacks, originating from The Hospital of Our Lady of the Kings, founded in 1393.
- true cross, refounded in 1942, comes from another brotherhood of the 14th century.
- Great power, founded in 1431.
- Valley, formed by the merger of two brotherhoods, the oldest of them, from Santa Faz (1450).
- Triana's Hope, founded in 1481.
- San Benito, reorganized into 1921, comes from another brotherhood that owned a Hospital at the beginning of the 16th century in Triana.
- montesion, It seems to come from a group of disciplinarians gathered around a Crucified who established themselves at the end of the 15th century in the monastery of Santa Paula., where said Crucified is currently located.
- Fifth Anguish, formed in 1500 in the convent of Carmen.
● Brotherhood and Brotherhood of the Holy Crucifix and Our Lady of Grace, of the convent of San Agustín. It was founded in the 14th century and disappeared at the end of the 19th century.. His Christ was lost in the fire of 1936. Thus, A reproduction was made and is currently the owner of the brotherhood of San Roque.