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During Palm Sunday, in the morning, are blessed in churches olive branches and palm trees intertwined and often decorated in the afternoon there is really represents traveling the Passion of Christ during which more than a hundred characters in period costume , parade from the parish of St. Anna (Capuchin), up to Piazza Ciullo where is the procession through the VI during April and the Avenue of Italy, arrives at the "Round" where is the Crucifixion. On Holy Thursday tradition is to visit the tombs in the churches. On Good Friday, however, there is a procession that, in the church of S. Oliva, moves, with the urn glass of Jesus taken down and the "vara" of the Sorrowful Mother, dressed in purple richly embroidered and jeweled black coat with gold, preceded by a long double row of worshipers, many of them barefoot and with the participation of children dressed as Samaritans, Judiths and other characters. Both the coffin of the dead Christ that the statue of Our shoulders are brought by congregants for the occasion dressed in black with a crown of thorns on his head and the '"dwell" on the shoulders and chest. The most striking of Holy Week turns at midnight on Saturday, the Mother Church, with a car hidden behind the high altar, is thrown up the statue of the Risen Christ.
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