I know I raved about the Presepio Vivente put on in Mogliano at Christmas, but I must mention the very moving Easter Procession that took place there on Good Friday. It began about 9pm with the Last Supper, moved into the main piazza for the trial by Pontius Pilate then back along the main streets for the Stations of the Cross and finally to the Crucifixion. Afterwards the church led a procession carrying various icons back into the centro storicho for a service. This was at about midnight.There were hundreds if not thousands of people of all ages in the 'audience' and the scenes were acted out in total silence. There was no trouble, no hooliganism, no drunken behaviour.
It was startlingly realistic, with robes being torn off, Jesus falling to the ground, the Roman soldiers taunting him and the three figures lifted high on the crosses. When we, the crowd, were watching the scene in which Pilate offers to release one of the 'criminals', I felt that this was what it must have been like, and when Jesus was being flogged, a child cried.
Annie.
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