Founded as Stewardship in 1939, it paraded for the first time in 1940. It was organized by a group of ciezanos, concerned and devoted to the religious spirit of our Holy Week festivities, who intended to incorporate into our Parades a throne until then absent from them (Jesus, recently descended from the cross, at the feet of his sorrowful mother). The murcian sculptor José Planes composed for the Brotherhood this Throne with the Image of a Recumbent Christ and with another dress of the Virgin made on request for Holy Week in 1940; The group was installed on a gilded wooden throne, made by Bautista Molina.

He also wanted to implement the Brotherhood, as a complement to the Passion Liturgy, the 'Sermon of the Seven Words', which was only valid for a few short years.

Under the mandate of Mr. Antonio Pérez Gómez, the true inspiration of this Brotherhood, its first Chambermaid, Ms. Purificación Gómez, his wife, gave the velvet mantle embroidered in gold for the Image of the Virgin, and shortly after the marriage paid for the chapel in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption in which the Images receives worship.

Throughout the years from its founding to today, two characteristics have remained unchanged: on the one hand, the parade of women dressed in rigorous mourning with a Spanish mantilla and men in black suits, and on the other, the survival of the wax as lighting for both.  The tunics of the 'Anderos', originally black, turned blue from the moment the Processional Parade of the Throne was taken over by the Brotherhood of Saint Mary Magdalene (after a few years in which it was processed among others by the Brotherhood of The Prayer of the Garden and the Holy Sepulcher, for the Brotherhood of the Descent of Christ and Kiss of Judas, and for the Brotherhood of the Samaritan, for not having own Brothers).

Since the Brotherhood of the Most Holy Reclining Christ was linked to that of Saint Mary Magdalene in the eighties by the will of its founders, several restoration works have been undertaken: that of the Images, carried out in 1992 by Antonio Martínez Villa, and that of its old Standard, acquired in times in Jumilla, carried out by the women of the Brotherhood of Saint Mary Magdalene in 1992. Finally, the Brotherhood recovered for his anderos in 1996 the 'executioner's hat' and in 2005, under the presidency of Mr. Joaquín Diego Gómez Rubio, he modified its design by incorporating a Tercio of Nazarenes to his procession.

Also under the mandate of Mr. Joaquín Gómez, in 2005, the old work of the Virgin of Planes was replaced by the dress Image of Our Lady of Greater Sorrow, the work of the famous Sevillian image maker, Luis Álvarez Duarte. During those first years of the recent millennium, the Brotherhood also replaced the primitive throne of Bautista Molina with the great work of Antonio Ibañez Valles. Carved in wood in Seville, it was the first project of the Art Commission that was carried out in phases, the work being finished in 2007, after the gilding process by Manuel Calvo and with the creation of four sculptures by Encarnación Hurtado. Since then, all projects have been financed by the Brotherhood of Saint Mary Magdalene.

Photograph by Manuel Carpio.

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