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Holy week - Ispica
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The Sunday of the Palms
On Sundays of the Palms are celebrated in the Basilica of Saint Maria Maggiore and after the S.Put the procession with palms and sprigs of ulivo to bless it goes him to the Rotunda to the entry of the city for the benediction of the Palms.
From the Rotunda the procession with in head Jesus' on an asinello followed by the disciples and surrounded by palms and twigs of ulivo, salt for the street XX Settembre toward the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore.
The evening, after the S. Mass, the representation of the deposition of the Christ from the Cross and the meditation of the seven words that Jesus' it told Cross.
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The holy Thursday
The Thursday' saint for the "cavari" of the Basilica of S. Maria Maggiore has beginning in the full one of the night. At the 1,30 it begins the pilgrimage of the believers to the rocky Church of Saint Maria of the it Extracts from where the Street Crucis departs, animated by the young people of the parish that it finishes in the S plaza. Maria Maggiore with the stations of the Crocefissione and the deposition of the Christ died in the sepulchre prepared in the same plaza.
At the 4,00 the traditional opening of the doors of the Basilica for the rite of the thanks to the altar of the SS. Christ to the Column.
In the forenoon they have beginning the celebrations of the SS. Christ flagellated to the Column in the Basilica S. Maria Maggiore. The columns of the church are filled with gifts and ex vote in wax. On the sacrato the gangs entertain with happy marches a mixed public of elderly and young waiting for the moment of the "scinnuta" (descent of the Christ in the middle of the believers). In the afternoon you/he/she is brought in procession the simulacro and solo to midnight it returns in the basilica between smokes and fires of artifice.
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The holy Friday
The Friday Saint is the day in which is celebrated and it recalls the passion of the Lord for the "nunziari" of the Basilica SS. Announced. The day begins with the incesimento and the opening of the doors of the basilica to the believers. Despite the impressive number of people that you/they fill the temple, the silence is great when at the 11,00 the priest knocks three times on the doors. And' then that the fall of the doors happens with discloses her/it some sacred image of the SS. Christ with the cross among the cry of the devotees "and picciuotti: cruci, cruci, cruci..." and the sound of the musical gangs that you/they perform the symphonic march of the "Christ to the Cross in the street of the Calvary."
In the afternoon, after the arrival in plaza of the Cavalry of the Roman soldiers, it has beginning the procession of the simulacro of the Christ to the Cross for the pricipalis streets of the city and it has particularly touching moments in the street of the Regions with I shoot him/it of 21 gun hits and the meeting with the Veronica, the pious women and the Madonna Our Lady of Sorrows in other parts of the run.
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The evening of holy Saturday
The evening of holy Saturday in both the Basilicas (SS.Announced and Saint Maria Maggiore) the functions of the Vigil develop him Pasquale, with the fall of the stone of the sepulchre with the svelamento of the statue of the Christ Risorto.
After the mass the Christ is put in her/it "it launches" and celebrated for the aisles.
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The Sunday of Easter
The Sunday of Easter the Christ Risorto of the Basilica SS. Announced it concludes the celebrations of the Week Saint. At the 12.00 the Christ from the Basilica crosses the course Garibaldi to meet of run with Maria Addolorata coming from the Mother Church among shots of musketries, flight of doves and cries of the nunziataris.
The evening the concert of Easter and the pyrotechnic show.
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The seventh one after Easter
The week later Easter for the roads of the city is easy to meet groups of boys that bring in procession their statues in miniature with so much of standards, uniforms and music to the succession.
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E' vietata la riproduzione anche parziale senza l'autorizzazione della Redazione
They thank all those people who contribute to the development and the growth of the site "Costierabarocca"
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