CERCA Procession - Calvi

CERCA Procession - Calvi

29 March, 2024 - CORSICAN RELIGION - HOLY WEEK - In Calvi, the Cerca takes place on Good Friday morning from 9am. The reclining body of Christ and the Virgin of Sorrows, taken from the cathedral of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in the upper town, are carried by the confreres of Saint-Antoine in their grey cape (tabbarinu). The procession, made up of members of the city's two brotherhoods (Saint Erasmus and Saint Anthony) accompanied by the faithful, descended from the Citadel to the church of Sainte-Marie-Majeure in the Lower Town, chanting the sacred laments along the way: Atto di Contrizione, A Notre Dame des Douleurs, Complainte à la Vierge, Passione, Implorations à la vierge des Douleurs, Psaume de la Pénitence, A la Gloire de Marie (Dio, vi salvi Regina), songs repeated on a sheet of paper given to most of the participants. The confreres did not form a spiral in the square in front of Santa Maria Maggiore, as they do during the Granitula, which takes place in the evening from 9.30pm and follows a shorter route, no

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