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L’Ardia di San
Costantino horse race
in Sedilo
one features the Grieving Virgin with her heart stabbed by three swords.
On the Thursday evening, the procession of the Addolorata takes place:
the simulacrum is carried into seven churches around town where the Holy
Sepulchre has been set up, in the symbolic quest for the Son. In the next
morning, the procession of Jesus carrying the Cross to Golgotha winds
around the streets, followed along by the Addolorata. Whereas in the
evening, the most evocative rite is celebrated: the burial of Jesus,
represented as dead, in a remarkable XVII-century simulacrum. It is
noteworthy, both in Cagliari and in Iglesias, the widespread habit of
displaying in the churches is nenniris, dishes full of cotton where seeds of
wheat or pulses have been sowed, which are then left to grow in the
darkness giving rise to whitish shoots: symbols of the resurrection after
death, they hark back to the myth of Adonis, rooted into the Phoenician
world. Castelsardo, the only place where the sacred celebrations last the
entire Holy Week, commemorates the most important rite on the Holy
Monday: at dawn, inside the Romanesque church of Santa Maria of Tergu,
the Holy Mass is celebrated and the Mysteries are presented. A long
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