Seven Kilometers from Jerusalem ....
---- Christ and his Sons ----
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This year ... I was able to relive the deep emotion to see of the so-called "procession of Babbaluti ", which takes place on the last Friday of the month of March in the town of San Marco d'Alunzio ( Sicily); the " babbaluti " are thirtythree hooded men and women ( like the 33 years of Christ ) with robes of colour blue; the babbaluti carry on their shoulders the float with the Holy Crucifix of Araceli's church (the statue was created by Scipione Li Volsi, in the year 1652), and with the painting of Our Lady of Sorrows, that appears pierced by seven swords (a painting of the eighteenth century); babbaluti before the start of the procession ( in bare feet, wearing only the heavy wool socks , hand-made; women hooded , to avoid revealing their presence feminine, also wear gloves wool) , they have to travel a journey of purification, when they arrived near the ancient church of Araceli they kiss the ground, and immediately allowed to enter to the church, but through a side door, called " false door " , just so they can access the float, outside the front door of the church of Araceli, then they wait for the priest to finish his sermon, and so begin the procession through the streets of the picturesque and friendly village of San Marco d'Alunzio .
....It's a short-long report on Feast of the Holy Crucifix of Araceli; this year the procession was marked by bad weather, there was cold, rain, wind and sometimes even fog.
Seven Kilometers from Jerusalem ....
---- Christ and his Sons ----
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This year ... I was able to relive the deep emotion to see of the so-called "procession of Babbaluti ", which takes place on the last Friday of the month of March in the town of San Marco d'Alunzio ( Sicily); the " babbaluti " are thirtythree hooded men and women ( like the 33 years of Christ ) with robes of colour blue; the babbaluti carry on their shoulders the float with the Holy Crucifix of Araceli's church (the statue was created by Scipione Li Volsi, in the year 1652), and with the painting of Our Lady of Sorrows, that appears pierced by seven swords (a painting of the eighteenth century); babbaluti before the start of the procession ( in bare feet, wearing only the heavy wool socks , hand-made; women hooded , to avoid revealing their presence feminine, also wear gloves wool) , they have to travel a journey of purification, when they arrived near the ancient church of Araceli they kiss the ground, and immediately allowed to enter to the church, but through a side door, called " false door " , just so they can access the float, outside the front door of the church of Araceli, then they wait for the priest to finish his sermon, and so begin the procession through the streets of the picturesque and friendly village of San Marco d'Alunzio .
....It's a short-long report on Feast of the Holy Crucifix of Araceli; this year the procession was marked by bad weather, there was cold, rain, wind and sometimes even fog.