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The Procession Of Mysteries
Photography by Franco Guardascione - Text by Franco Guardascione
(Italy)
Image ID: 446FG - 66 photos
During Easter holidays there are more than three thousand living shows taking place along the streets of different Italian places. This is a good time to meet people and there are a lot of religious rituals, festivities and sacred representations from the North to the South of the whole peninsula. All these rituals originate from old traditions. On Good Friday in Procida, it takes place “the Procession of Mysteries”. Mysteries are called the structures representing the life and death of Jesus Christ. They are carried along the narrow streets by people of the island. This parade is organised by Turchini’s Confraternity which was founded by the Jesuit fathers in 1629.  (More) ...
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