Title: Holy Week processions in Guatemala - Wikipedia
Headings: Holy Week processions in Guatemala
Holy Week processions in Guatemala
Contents
History
Pre-columbine era
Holy Week in Medieval Europe
Bourbon Reforms
19th Century
20th Century
Holy Week art
Sculptures
Procession sculptures
Arte efímero
Processions
Guatemala City
Antigua Guatemala
See also
General:
Notes and references
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: Decline of Jesuit cultural heritage
Trend towards a secular and secularized culture
Decidedly rationalist attitude
Precedence of natural science over religious dogma
Severe criticism of the role of the Church in society, especially the fraier and nun monasteries. These laws sought to limit excessive economic power of some brotherhoods, their large number, the lack of administrative and fiscal control by the authorities and public manifestations of piety, the latter listed as signs of backwardness and fanaticism, especially those of Holy Week. 19th Century
See also: Rafael Carrera and Justo Rufino Barrios
After the overthrow and expulsion of members of Aycinena Clan in 1829, the Liberals ousted the regular orders and just left the secular clergy in the country, although without the fixed income from mandatory tithing. This greatly weakened the Catholic Church in Guatemala, but after the failure of liberal governor Mariano Gálvez to combat an epidema of cholera morbus, parish priests incited the peasant population against him, and under the leadership of Rafael Carrera, drove Gálvez and liberal out of power. After a decade of government, Carrera allowed the return of the regular orders and conservative elite Catholics and authorized compulsory tithing again, reinforcing the Church in the country and the manifestations of faith such as Holy Week flourished. Indeed, in 1852, Guatemala and the Holy See signed a concordat in which the latter was entrusted with the education of the Guatemalan population and church-state union in the country was reinforced. After the fall of the Conservative regime and the Liberal victory in 1871, the Catholic Church suffered renewed attacks on its economic and political influence, as happened in 1829 when it was attacked by the Liberal government of Francisco Morazán. In 1873, the regular orders were again evicted, their property confiscated -including convents, haciendas and doctrines of Indians throughout the country- and mandatory tithing was abolished, leaving the secular clergy relegated to their parishes without stable income. Article 32: