What happened on Holy Saturday?

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He Holy Saturdayconsidered the penultimate day of Holy Week, is a transcendental day for all believers as it commemorates the time in which Jesus remained in the tomb after his crucifixion and before his resurrection.

This special day, which is part of the Paschal Triduum which begins on Thursday and ends on Sunday, occurs within the framework of a chain of biblical events that continued after the death of Jesus on the Cross, which is recreated in the Via Crucis on Good Friday where people pray standing and in some moments on our knees to remember the way of Jesus.

In this period of time, Christians dedicate their time to reflect on the death of the son of God and the importance of his resurrection. At the same time, as the Bible describes, Christ knew his destiny because many prophecies in the Old Testament referred to his death and his subsequent rebirth. According to what he expressed to his disciples, he would be reborn on the third day.

For this feature of vigilthis Holy Saturday does not have liturgical festivalssince it emulates that spirit of uncertainty of the faithful and their hope for the return of Christ.

The gospels say that Jesus had been buried in a tomb dug into the rock of a rock, in a tomb that belonged to a disciple of his named Joseph. After taking his body down from the cross, this follower asked Pontius Pilate (the Roman authority of the territory of Judea) to allow his burial.

Mary, the mother of Christ, and Mary Magdalene They accompanied the body at the burial, after which the entrance to the grotto was sealed with a large stone.

But Pilate It also had to respond to the demands of the Pharisees and the princes of the priestswho had promoted the arrest and subsequent conviction of Jesusand they feared that their disciples They made his body disappear on the third day to prove the prophecy and glorify him. They then asked that a guard be set up at the entrance to the cave. Granted this by the representative of the Roman imperial power, the soldiers settled outside the tomb. However, on the third day they abandoned the site, and the messianic prophecy with the resurrection of Jesus.

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