{"id":2945,"date":"2021-10-11T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/uncategorized\/the-holy-week\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T09:30:46","slug":"the-holy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/uncategorized\/the-holy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holy week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rites<\/strong>, <strong>processions<\/strong>, <strong>religious services<\/strong> that unite faith, traditions and also folklore, characterize the\u00a0<strong>Easter week<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Short parades with palms in the churches, during the Sunday before Easter, give start to the Holy Week rites.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Tuesday<\/strong> there is a procession of the painting \u2018Madonna Addolorata\u2019 (Our Lady of Sorrows) known as the \u2018Madonna dei Massari\u2019 (lit.Virgin of workmen), which on the Wednesday afternoon encounters the painting \u2018Madonna del Popolo\u2019 (lit. People\u2019s Virgin).<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Thursday<\/strong> the richly decorated \u2018Altars of repose\u2019 are set up in all churches, recalling the Last Supper.<br \/>\nBut the highlight is in the fascinating and moving procession of the \u201c<em>Misteri<\/em>\u201d, composed of eighteen groups of 17th and18th-century statues of wood, canvas and glue, evoking episodes of the Passion of Christ.<br \/>\nTwo more statues, \u2018<em>Ges\u00f9 nell\u2019urna<\/em>\u2019 (Jesus in a glass coffin) and the \u2018<em>Addolorata<\/em>\u2019 (Lady of Sorrows) end the processiong. Entrusted to the \u2018maestranze\u2019 (ancient local guilds) whose members carry them on their shoulders, the groups take to the city streets from 2 pm on <strong>Friday<\/strong> until <strong>Saturday<\/strong> morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rites, processions, religious services that unite faith, traditions and also folklore, characterize the\u00a0Easter week. Short parades with palms in the churches, during the Sunday before Easter, give start to the Holy Week rites. On Tuesday there is a procession of the painting \u2018Madonna Addolorata\u2019 (Our Lady of Sorrows) known as the \u2018Madonna dei Massari\u2019 (lit.Virgin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trapani-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itineraridelgustotrapani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}