This is in March or April, depending on the church calendar, between Palm Sunday and the Resurrection. The origin of Semana Santa in Seville goes back to the 16th century, when the first hermandades and cofradías [brotherhoods] arrived. There are currently more than 50 cofradías who march in a procession in homage to Christ and the Virgin. For the whole week, sanctuaries are visited and people attend various religious celebrations. A public and very diverse catechism passes through the streets, based on the sacred images of brotherhood, a procession whose steps represent the different stages of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.