There is little time left for us to live the eastern. It is one of the most important dates in the Christian religious calendar, after all it marks the resurrection of Jesus and his journey to heaven. One of the special countries to experience Holy Week, if you are religious, is undoubtedly Italy.
Throughout Italy, Holy Week is experienced with events, fairs, folk traditions, festivals and solemn ceremonies. The Last Supper, the Lavatory, the Prayer in the garden, the Betrayal of Judas, the capture of Christ, the Judgment, Calvary, the agony, the death of Jesus, the Deposition and the Resurrection, these are the different moments that are they live, remember and are realized during the days that the eastern:
- Holy Thursday: the Eucharistic Celebration takes place in the churches, the tombs are visited in each parish and the Last Supper is remembered and commemorated.
- Good Friday: it is the day of mourning and you will see that the streets are crossed by people representing the Via Cruxis. There are candles, lighted tapers. The Via Cruxis, Via de la Cruz, Via Dolorosa, what it does is represent and commemorate the painful path that Christ makes up to Mount Golgota where the cross awaits him.
- Holy Saturday: the bells ring in every town in Italy to remember the resurrection of Christ.
- Easter Sunday: Lent ends, the Easter lamb is eaten and eggs and sweets shaped like doves are distributed. The egg symbolizes life and fertility and Easter is both the festival of spring and the flowering of nature after winter (with pagan origins, of course).
The truth is that the Holy Week in Italy it is celebrated from north to south and from east to west.