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Holy Week

Enna, IN, Italy

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        The Holy Week in Enna unique in its kind is characterized by centuries-old rites with the participation of 16 brotherhoods and 3000 confrati hooded . A sacred journey and composed, the streets of the city that arouses great pathos and heartfelt participation.

        Each Sicilian lives with great pathos Easter time. The Holy Week rites are an expression of a strong religiosity and heartfelt participation in the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ. It 's Holy Week one of the most beautiful times to visit Enna. It 's good protected by UNESCO, whose secular rites, for their sacredness sad and painful, make the Holy Week only of its kind. The highlight is the Good Friday. The 16 brotherhoods with 3000 confrati hooded start from the Cathedral a solemn procession through the streets of the City, illuminated artistic way with torches Oil. The sacred journey is characterized by composure, decorum, moving silence and mystical rigor, broken along the way from the poignant funeral marches that are linked to the memory of "lamintazzi" The constitution seniority brotherhoods in order precede the "Vare" of the Dead Christ and. At the cemetery we witness the solemn blessing with the cross reliquary containing a thorn from the Crown of Jesus Christ. The procession ends with the return to the Cathedral from where fercoli are accompanied in their respective churches.

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