Corporate 25th Anniversary

THE HOLY WEEK IN SARDINIA

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Holy Week in Sardinia is a 'unique and exciting experience.

secular traditions of English origin blend with ancient traditions of mysticism and religious premises (campidanesi, Logudorese and barbarian) to perform rituals, processions and choral moments of great expressive power and influence.

prominence to the procession of the Mysteries, the rituals of moving down from the cross ("On Scravamentu) el 'meeting of the statue of Jesus and Mary (' S 'Incontru) the streets of countries, on the morning of Easter Sunday.

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play the major role the Confraternity who treat the sacred representations and parade in their beautiful costumes, singing religious songs in Latin and Sardinia, which has roots dating back to medieval times.

Many scholars of history and ethnography to argue that Sardinia represents, by tradition and memory, a continent in its own right in the middle of the Mediterranean, with its ancient rites of millennia.
rituals most characteristic are those related to Holy Week, el 'peak occurs in the Castelsardo processions, rich in suggestion and direct descendants of the medieval tradition of a fishing village.
The procession is definitely more exciting than the Lunissanti, which involves the whole country into a full day of devotion.

Not least are the rituals that take place a little 'everywhere in the' island, such as to Iglesias, a Cuglieri, Alghero, Santulussurgiu ... finishing at Domusnovas where, thanks to the newly formed Brotherhood of Our Lady of Sorrows, was revived and with greater religious significance, a Holy Week almost disappeared.

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The Rites of Holy Week Sarda are characterized by the participation of the people heard and internalized the mystery of the death of Jesus Christ, lived in true Christian spirit, just because it is well away from the ceremonial pomp of Puglia and the "noise" than those prevailing in the Sicilian sense of festivity.

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_____________________________________________ Franco Stanzione

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