Each year, in the narrow streets of the old town of Caltanissetta, for Holy Week revive old traditions, has for centuries, the city wake up, and they mysteriously return to the past, creating moments of wonder and deep emotion, where interweave art and culture with a deep and genuine faith of Christian people. ancient traditions that bear witness to the faith and worship of so many men over many centuries, which still are highly experienced.
this week that precedes Easter is the most intense for Caltanissetta, where every year seems to renew a ritual jump in the past, reviving the Passion and Death of Jesus, as happened many years ago.
holidays, noisy processions and intense moments of collective prayer wrap Holy Week in Caltanissetta, which collects all kinds of emotions, they can surprise each year thousands of people.
Diving into this world every year to rediscover our roots, through everything that our ancestors have transmitted to us and that we have the opportunity to relive, in Holy Week comes out the real life of the people, the suffering of men of mine, how to live their religiosity of the past, the social structures of past and present, ancient crafts, wealth and poverty of time, reaching even to the feelings Personal of the sculptors of the Vare, Francesco and Vincenzo Biangardi, whose procession is the highlight of these days and more intense.
Man leaves many traces of its passage and the history of collecting in Caltanissetta mysteriously appears to be the Holy Week, filled with rituals, signs, gestures, statues, processions, which tells us about our past.
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- Excerpt from "The Rites of Holy Week in Caltanissetta" by Francesco Miceli.
- Photo by Walter Lo Cascio.
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