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The religious processions in Procida which
nearly go back to ancient pagan rites gave
a precise connotation to island life until
about twenty years ago, and still do to
this day...
One can certainly affirm that except for
the winter months, from March to October
there is a continuous succession of processions
and festivals whose expirations have been
consolidated throughout time. A myriad of
local religious processions exists, such
as the processions that cross the whole
territory even today like Good Friday and
Saint Michele.
However, the highlight is represented by
the procession of the dead Christ on the
day of Good Friday, an event whose preparation
in the months preceding Easter represents
one of the maximum moments of social aggregation
for thousands of Procidans. In fact, the
procession of Good Friday is otherwise called
the procession of the "Mysteries"
after the plastic structures representing
scenes from the life and death of Jesus
that are carried around the roads of the
island.
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None of the other processions arouses the
same emotions as Good Friday.
The splendid statue of the patron of the
island, St. Michele, in gold and silver,
is carried in the procession twice a year:
on the 8th of May, remembering the apparition
that scared the Saracens away from the island
and on the 29th of September, only in the
suburb of Terra Murata. Numerous Procidans
of origin who are residents in the French
town of La Ciotat also participate in the
procession of St. Michele. La Ciotat, a
smallish community of emigrants who firstly
moved to Mers El Kebir in Algeria and then
to France has strengthened its bond with
the island and has also strengthened the
devotion towards our and their patron Saint.
The organization of the event was handed
over to the brotherhood of the Gialli's,
founded at the end of the XIX century by
Don Nicola Ricci. In the month of June,
various processions are to be found around
the island. Corpus Domini, Saint Antonio
and the Madonna della Libera, which is perhaps
the most traditional procession, both in
the path they take and in the forms they
use
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It is
almost a bucolic festival that crosses the
countryside of Annunziata, Faro, Cottimo,
Pozzo Vecchio, creating a perfect symbiosis
between divinity and nature.
In July, however, the Madonna of Graces
and the Madonna of Carmine are celebrated.
The first is celebrated every day in the
homonym Sanctuary in the piazza dei Martiri.
The Madonna of Carmine is celebrated on
the 16th of July when she is dressed and
then exposed on the altar of the abbey of
St. Michele up to the following Sunday when
she is carried around the island in the
procession and left for seven days in the
church of Pity, in the piazza of Marina
Grande, for the prayers and the adoration
of the believers. After a week, she is accompanied
in a solemn procession into the mother church
of St. Michele. In Marina di Chiaiolella
St. Joseph is carried in the procession.
The festival ends with a gigantic bonfire
fed by branches brought by all the locals.
Sometimes some religious processions (St.
Michele and the Madonna of the Graces) are
organized at sea, creating a very suggestive
atmosphere that subsequently shows the island's
bond with its seafaring history. In fact,
wherever you are in the world, all seamen
will tell you that on the day of Good Friday
they are taken by a sudden yearning melancholy
and, in the din of the motors of their ship,
they hear the distant sounds of the trumpet
of the Procession.
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