Case study · Murcia, San Pedro Church
A Holy Week you can also feel through sound.
The Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope, together with ONCE and NaviLens, places an accessible lectern with a NaviLens code next to each throne: the throne's caption is read aloud in the language of the visitor's phone.
San Pedro Church · Murcia
Seat of the Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope
Palm Sunday
Historic procession that opens Murcia's Holy Week
One lectern per throne
Accessible caption beside each throne with a NaviLens code
ONCE + NaviLens
Partnership with ONCE for an inclusive Passion
The client
Brotherhood of the
Most Holy Christ of Hope
The Pontifical, Royal and Venerable Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope, Mary Most Holy of Sorrows and of the Holy Zeal for the Salvation of Souls has its canonical seat at the San Pedro Church in Murcia and processes on Palm Sunday, opening the city's Holy Week.
In 2022, together with ONCE and Murcia-based NaviLens, it launched «Siente la Esperanza» (“Feel the Hope”): NaviLens codes on every throne, easy-read materials, and a procession designed so that people with diverse abilities — blind, low-vision, with cognitive disabilities or reading difficulties — can experience the Passion with full autonomy.
The project was covered by La Opinión de Murcia and Discapnet (ONCE Foundation) as one of Spain's first accessible Holy Weeks.
§ The challenge
Bringing the Passion, also, to those who cannot see it.
- 01
A Holy Week felt almost only with the eyes
Thrones, embroidery, candelabra and Baroque figures are the heart of Murcia's Holy Week. But iconographic detail, fixed captions and crowds left many blind, low-vision, cognitively disabled or non-Spanish-speaking visitors outside the story.
- 02
Throne info, authors, year and restoration… impossible to read
Each throne has its own story: image, author, sculptor, year, restoration, weight, number of bearers and patroness. That fact sheet existed only in printed leaflets, hard to find next to the throne and not at all accessible for visually impaired people.
- 03
Living the Passion with autonomy too
The Brotherhood wanted any person — member, neighbour or tourist — to approach a throne and discover, on their own phone, what it depicts, who carved it and why it matters, without depending on a companion.
§ The solution
A lectern next to each throne, with a NaviLens code.
Every throne of the Brotherhood receives a discreet lectern with the full fact sheet: Gospel quote, description of the image, year, authors, restoration, materials, gilding technique, processional weight, number of bearers and patroness.
In the lower corner is printed the NaviLens code, scannable from several metres away with the free NaviLens GO app. Once detected, the phone automatically reads the content aloud in the user's language.
The same support serves blind and low-vision people, people with cognitive disabilities, schoolchildren in easy-read mode, and pilgrims or tourists who don't speak Spanish.
§ The rollout
Throne by throne, an accessible Passion at San Pedro.
§ Timeline
«Siente la Esperanza», edition after edition.
- Apr 2022
«Siente la Esperanza» debuts
The Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope launches with ONCE and NaviLens the «Siente la Esperanza» initiative for Holy Week: thrones, chapel and procession adapted with NaviLens codes on every throne and easy-read materials.
- Palm Sunday · 2022
First accessible procession
Palm Sunday opens Murcia's Holy Week with the Brotherhood of Hope. Each throne has a black lectern with the throne's caption (authors, year, materials, restoration, weight and bearers) and a NaviLens code scannable from several metres.
- 2023 — 2026
The project becomes a fixture every Palm Sunday
The Brotherhood keeps the accessible lecterns year after year at the San Pedro Church and in its events: the “esperanza green” shines again as a benchmark of inclusive Holy Week in the Region of Murcia.
§ What they said
What people said about the project.
“The Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope has launched this year an initiative, together with ONCE and NaviLens, to foster inclusion and accessibility. People with disabilities are now able to walk through the church and learn about each throne autonomously.”
“The Brotherhood of the Most Holy Christ of Hope promotes the SIENTE LA ESPERANZA initiative: an accessible and inclusive Holy Week with NaviLens codes on every throne and easy-read materials so that everyone can experience the Passion.”
§ Results
The same Passion, now universal.
Every throne, accessible
Lectern with the full caption and NaviLens code next to every throne of the Brotherhood
Real autonomy
Blind and low-vision people walk through the chapel and discover each throne without a companion
Multilingual + easy-read
NaviLens audio plays in the phone's language; texts are also available in easy-read
Sources: La Opinión de Murcia (4 Apr 2022), La Opinión de Murcia (9 Apr 2022) · Discapnet · ONCE Foundation.
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