One of the traditions Valenzanesi, certainly the most heartfelt and the most exciting, is represented by the procession of the mysteries that winds every year in the alleys of Valenzano, the day of Good Friday.
The Valenzanesi call this day "the day du Delore de Mari", the day the pain of Mary;
The procession, in fact, symbolizes the longing that Mary did research to find her lost son, when Jesus went with his disciples to preach.
The Good Friday procession recounts the moments of the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ our Lord through the mysteries, paper mache sculptures constructed at different times by skilled cartapestai, real masterpieces artistic-religious.
 They are called "Mysteries" or "Saints" because they represent the Sorrowful Mysteries of the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, offered to the meditation of the faithful during the practice of the Holy Rosary.
Forty are the Mysteries parading in Valenzano during the procession, mostly belonging to private. On the morning of Friday the bands shall visit the homes of the owners to accommodate the Mysteries, then the mystery starts with the band. The various Mysteries gather ongoing Aldo Moro, a known street of Valenzano, then start in procession around eleven. The procession is announced by the same players who, at a slow pace, they play with the rhythm and monotonous. The first mysteries are the simplest and, almost always, are isolated figures; to follow real complex statuesque as "The Last Supper" and "The Three Crosses".
The mysteries are accompanied by girls dressed in black wearing the "square", a veil that falls from the head of the whole body; these girls are traditionally identified as the girls' vonn'o piezze ", ie that" go to lace "as supporting the ends of the lace cords that hang from the bottom of the mystery. Between a mystery and the other parade children dressed in costumes of different eras: angels, Jews, veronica, Samaritans.
Some mysteries are preceded by children dressed as Jesus Christ walking barefoot, wearing a red tunic or white, a cross on his shoulders, and a crown of thorns on his head; other little girls dressed as Sorrows. At the end of the procession the Mysteries back underway Aldo Moro, which are arranged in a horseshoe; in front of them, a priest, a balcony, reads a sermon.
After the sermon, the Mysteries are brought back into the homes of the owners and stored until the next year.
Good Friday is not for the Valenzanesi a party like any other, is one of the days of the year in which the participation and religious feelings are more intense and penetrating.
|