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BASÍLICA OF LEKEITIO
2010 Holy Week

Arrano`s Photo

Palm Sunday



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09:00 Spanish

10:00 Solemne

W/ Palm Blessing

11:15 Children

Palm Procesion

12:30 Spanish
Holy Thursday



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Good Friday

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Above ( Cristo de la Veracruz )
The oldest piece in the Basque Land imported from the New World mid XVI century.








La Pietá

Holy Saturday ..................................................................................




Mid-night

Solemne

Mass: 21:00 hrs

Blessing

of new

light & Water



((foto:Basilica).-Mingorri)
Easter Sunday
Services:

08:oo hrs Procesion.

09:00 Spanish Mass.

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10:30 Solemne Mass by

11:30 Children Mass

12:30 Spanish Mass.

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2009-2010

Merry Christmas & Best Wishes

THE BASÍLICA

Web by: Urpekofabrika

INTRODUCTION.-
An outstanding feature of any old engraving with a view of Lekeitio from the sea is a huge church bristling with pinnacles, buttresses and a tower sited right on the shoreline.
This is The Assumption of Our Lady, one of the best-known religious buildings in Bizkaia.
Records show that the church had been there much time before Lekeitio received its charter as a borough in 1325.

Editor´s foreword:
Building.- Basically, the church consists of three stagered naves in four sections and a polygonal chevet at the centre, the later surrounded by a lower retrochoir.
An array of arches stemming from the lower walls support the balustrade - and pinnacle - festooned main wall, while also reinforcing the considerable staggering between naves. In the higher level of the central nave, pointed arch windows with Gothic-style tracery perforate the grey limestone ashlar walls. On the main wall, a narrow but rather striking gallery, in the form of windows with sills decoreted with blind tracery, runs close to the wall communicating the three naves looking down onto the lower part of the church. One of the finest triforia in the Basque Gothic architecture, it also helps to greatly enliven the walls.

The round freestanding pillars adorned with smaller colums and abutting pilasters stress the Gothic nature of the church, as does the star-shaped webbing in the vaulting. The archivolted west door, a double entrance with two surbased arches split by a mullion bearing an Andra Mari ( statue of Our Lady ) does much to enhance the Gothic feel.
The door is set into a façade blooming with tiny original sculptured decorations.

On the right hand side is the tower, which consists of an ancient shaft that rises to roof level and a more moderm belfry above.

Although this is not the church cosecrated in Lekeitio in 1287, it may well be the one recorded as under construction in 1374. A century later, 1487, it was all but ready for use. It would eventually be completed in the Baroque style with the belfry in 1734. Architect Casto de Zavala´s neo-Gothic retrochoir, wich gives the building so much of its character, was added between 1881-1884.

Similar to other Gothic churches in Bizkaia and the Basque Country as a whole, La Asunción de Nuestra Señora is, in short, an outstanding example of late Gothic.


CONTENT:
Assumptiom of Our Lady
Lekeitio´s Basilica
Basilica de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
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Andra Mariaren Zeruratzea
Berriak
Antiguako Ama
Lekeitioko kampaien deia
Lekeitioko Basilika
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Basilica de Lequeitio

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Le Basilique
Lequeitio
Sacramentos
Agrupaciones
La Antigua
Instrumentos
Exposición
Andra Mari
Cosas de la parroquia
Oficina
Anuncios
Material
Oración
Enlaces
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Asunción de Nuestra Señora Semana Santa 2009
Liturgia del domingo
Lekeitio basilica gotica
Lekeitxo
Coro Basilica
Conciertos
Rincón de musica
Nuestra Señora de la Antigua
Basilica de Lekeitio
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A content of Galleries and Groups
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a/-: Comarca Lea-Artibai
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b/-: Amanecer en la atalaya
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c/-: Basilica Sacrosanta
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d/-: Nuestra Señora de la Antigua
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e/-: Lekeito en el arte
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f/-: Componentes monumentales
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g/-: Ese dia tán especial
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h/-: Retablo Gótico-flamigero
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i/-: Conjunto interior

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El Rincón de los más Jovenes

"" El Cofre del Corsario ""



Mapa:
.......... Mares del Caribe

Concert & Sea Sounds

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Dirigido por Ion Ugarriza, Edurne Eguia y El Coro Amillena.

2008-2009

From Basilica Lekeitio Gazte Tokia our best

SEASON GREETINGS

" Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus, laid down His sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay.....
Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask
Thee to stay,
Close by me forever, and love me,
I pry....."

¡ May the Lord´s blessings be with you......

on Christmas & always !

GOTHIC-FLEMISH

Enjoy visiting this BEAUTY`S GALLERY

Also visit URPEKOFABRIKA-: GALLERY

2007 NEWS

What is Baptism?
”Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit, and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as children of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: Baptism is a sacrament of regeneration through water in the word.” Through baptism, we become part of the royal, priestly people of God, called to holy lives of prayer and service.

BAPTISM OF YOUNG CHILDREN:
Although born in New York,
but as her brother Patrick couple of years back,
Alexandra Eriete Russell Laga, was baptised in our Basilica
by Rev. Benito Anzola on January 20, 2007.
Congratulations to her happy parents & grandparents .