 | Sardinia |  |
| |
|
|
| EASTER IN SARDINIA: THE HOLY WEEK IN NUORO | | |
 |
EASTER IN SARDINIA: THE HOLY WEEK IN NUORO
Nuoro
NU [Nuoro]
| |
|
| |
In Nuoro, the rites of the Holy Week unite traditional celebrations to local ceremonies and sacred representations, processions of pilgrim with simbolic torches, and rites of profound emotion.
The events begin on the Holy Thursday, into the Cathedral, with the ceremony of "coena domini" (last dinner of our Lord) during which the bishop celebrates the peculiar rite of the "feet washing". The day following, during the ceremony they use to benedict the sacred oil and during the evening they use to propose the representation of "S'Iscravamentu" (the unailing), the deposition of the Christ from the cross.
The ceremony is performed in the dark, without any natural or artificial light, exception done for the "ara" where the scene has been organized. Than, some lines of the Holy Evangelium are read in Sardinian language while the traditional choirs from Barbagia sing sacred and religious songs. After the representation a procession drives and accompanies the statue of Christ till the church of the Holy Cross. On the saturday following the solemn wake of prayers takes place and the Easter Sunday, in the morning, two different processions leave, one from the church of the Holy Cross, accompanying the resurrected Christ, and the other from the church of the Holy Graces with Gesus Mother, the Madonna.
The two processions walk along the streets downtown and arrive at Piazza Crispi where you will assist at the "S'Incontru" (the meeting). Than the two processions united climb the central Corso until the Cathedral, where the solemn ceremony takes place. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|