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Holy Thursday Procession in Marsala, Sicily
The Easter procession of Holy Thursday in Marsala dates back to the first half of the seventeenth century, and has its genesis in the sacred representations which, since the Middle Ages, were presented through comedies, poetic compositions or figurative and symbolic processions, silent and spoken. The organization of the procession is entrusted to the confraternity of Sant'Anna. It is learned that under the guidance of the Jesuit fathers, the young students of the college, for the first time in 1620, represented the Tragedy of San Simone and that in 1635 the recitation of the Passion of Jesus Christ began, in some churches and city Confraternities. Later still the confraternity made a real procession, as it does however in which the passion of Jesus was represented, with characters dressed in the costume of the time. Today the procession is divided into eight groups that recognize their center in the person of the one and only masked Christ.