Dell 'Oratory of St. Philip Blacks belonged to the chemist Joseph Alessi, recalling with nostalgia the procession, wanted it restored and so, chiedendo il permesso a Sua Maestà Ferdinando II (in quel tempo Re delle due Sicilie), nel 1841 riattivò la processione.
Per quell'anno alla Pasqua mancavano pochissimi giorni, come fare per trovare al più presto delle Vare da portare in processione?
Sorprendente è il modo con cui Giuseppe Alesso realizzò, aiutato dal figlio Michele e dagli amici più cari (Giuseppe Lanza, Salvatore Marra, Michele Pulci), in pochissimi giorni ben sette Vare.
Come fece? Col modo più semplice: le chiese in prestito!
Infatti prese da altri gruppi processionali di diversi santi, i "baiardi", cioè le basi dove dovevano sorgere i gruppi; prese quelli di Sant'Antonio, San Biagio, the Madonna del Carmine, San Calogero, of San Pasquale and St. Vincent, and transported in the church of San Sebastiano, from that day became a real site and taken by every church in the city statues and objects that could be useful for the creation of new groups. For the first
Vara l 'Alessio took the statue of Christ in the act of praying, he had built for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, and a little cherub, removed from the' altar of SS. Crucifix in the cathedral, was placed between the branches of a cypress tree that overcomes the group came very easily in this way "u Signuri all'ortu . For the second
Vara built, helped by his son Michael, two figures: Jesus and Judas, who was in the act of kissing the cheeks of the Nazarene. This will form "the kiss of Judas .
In the third mystery, called "u Signuri to 'culonna ", put a marble column, and this tied a statue of Jesus taken from a crucifix in the church of San Sebastiano. This statue was easily adaptable because he had the arm joints mobile. In this Vara recalled the scourging of Jesus Vara
The fourth was created by a table on which was placed half bust of the Ecce Homo (which still is preserved in the church of Our Lady of the Chain) in order to make it look like Jesus was overlooking a balcony. He trained so very easily, "Lii Cciaòmu . The fifth
Vara, " the crucifixion," consisted of a crucifix removed from the church of St. Anthony.
A statue of the dead body of Jesus, drawn from an urn in the church of San Sebastiano, was wrapped in a sheet, and was carried in procession by hand by four priests. This sculpture is not brought in his urn, not so much weight, but because it was ugly as only half built. It was the sixth so Vara, " the tomb." In the seventh
Vara was placed the statue of which had Alessi made. In this way there was the Vara de "The Sorrows . With these first rudimentary
groups became an extraordinary procession in 1841.
Michele Alessi makes a careful and detailed description of the first procession in which he, a boy, had participated:
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"The procession left the church of San Sebastiano, announced by a well-fed firing of rockets and firecrackers. The Vare was solemnly decorated with candles and flowers fine, and were preceded by a brisk hundred kids screaming out loud holding the "Fanara" (reeds bound with rattan, which gave the effect of a torch). Each Vara was followed by a number of devotees who sang the "Ladata. The procession, after visiting the graves of five cities: Cathedral, St. Agatha, St. Francis, Holy Cross College, and Mary, came after two hours in the square Ferdinandea (now Piazza Garibaldi) and the groups arranged in a semicircle, were Discussed by P. Serafino. The procession, after the sermon, was dissolved, and the Vare entered into the church. "
(Michele Alessi - 1903, p.. 37-38).
. REFORMS
. Thereafter, from year to year, joined by several other mysteries, which eventually became 14.
1. Gesù al Getsemani, 1841
2. Il bacio di Giuda, 1841
3. Gesù alla Colonna, 1843.
4. Ecce Homo, 1845
5. La Condanna, 1843
6. La prima caduta, 1845
7. Il Cireneo, 1843
8. L'Incontro, 1842
9. La Veronica, 1842
10. Il Crocifisso, 1844
11. La Pietà, 1844
12. La Traslazione, 1853 (commissionata ad un artista napoletano, sfila tutt' ora in processione)
13. Il Sepolcro, 1850
14. L'Addolorata, 1850.
Grazie all'Alesso, la processione delle Vare a Caltanissetta varcò ben presto i confini the province. Giuseppe Alessi involved in a short time much of the city in the procession, assigning each citizen a class of 14 Vare, as happened for example to the mysteries of Trapani and Murcia.
Soon the procession became gradually more and more important, calling every year more and a greater number, not only the Nissen, but also tourists. However, these were not exceptional bill Vare and often lacked size and proportion of the sculptures were made to the good but, despite the appearance of these first rudimentary Vare, people enthusiastically participated in the procession every year.
since 1866, as Caltanissetta through a period of strong economic decline, many Vare not marched in procession and, over time, they were just five or six groups in the procession.
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- Excerpt from "The Rites of Holy Week in Caltanissetta" by Francesco Miceli.
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