.JPG "The Good Friday Procession winds through the streets of Vasto")
Through the streets of the center of Vast the traditional one unfolded Good Friday procession.
The various symbols of Passionkept in the Church of the Madonna delle Grazieand the statues of Dead Christ and of Our Lady of Sorrowscome from Church of Santa Filomenacharacterized the long queue starting from Church of San Pietro in Sant’Antonio di Padovaaround 7pm, concluding in the presence of the St. Joseph’s Cathedral.
Here, therefore, are the rooster, the dice, the instruments of flagellation, Veronica with the face of Jesus, the Cross and the statue of the Dead Christ followed by that of Our Lady of Sorrows, accompanied by the Confraternities of the Sacred Pio Monte dei Morti and of theSorrowful. Present were the other city brotherhoods, the priests of the local clergy, religious groups, the Schola Cantorum ‘Zaccardi’ directed by the teacher Luigi Di Tulliocivil and military authorities and the people.
Until the 1920s, remember Lino Spadaccinia lover of city history, the procession went out on Holy Thursday, at the end of the Mass in Coena Domini, while on Good Friday, four hours before sunset, the “Three hours of Agony of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (also called “Seven Words”, to remember the seven words pronounced by Jesus before dying), solemnly and dramatically, but without the procession.