Vacanze Savona

THE GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION

The Good Friday procession of Savona is an ancient rite of the Christian tradition that has its roots in the Middle Ages , or at the time of flagellates of the thirteenth century .
With it the organization of the Prior General of the Brotherhoods will keep alive a very old tradition of historical-religious and continues to attract the faithful of the Catholic Church from all parts of Liguria . It is held every two years, in even years, starting from the cathedral to be completed after a distance of about one square mile in Sixtus IV. The procession was not held in 2004 due to bad weather and was taken on Good Friday of Easter 2006 ,on the evening of .
The procession, accompanied by songs of composed for the occasion sacred - is divided into post offices, stations marked by the head or chest driving fifteen wooden boxes of six fraternities Savona.It is heavy sculptural groups from five to eighteen hundred and representatives the mysteries ofthe Passion, which date back to different eras and are dedicated to a different stylistic models. The oldest are two vaults of the Brotherhood of Saints Peter and Catherine, arrived from Naplesinand representing " The Flagellation"and" Christ falls beneath the cross "very archaic and static composition.Belongs to the same fraternity also check out the latest, the 'Ecce Homo", created in 1978by sculptor Savona Renata Cuneoto replace a cash seventeenth century the same subject (by the sculptor Andrea Genovese Thurs Tower) was lost during the Second World War .
The procession is opened by a wooden cross that dialect "Crux du Pasciu" ( Cross of Passion ), or commonly "Gallu du Crux ( the Cross of the Rooster ), because the door painted and shaped all the symbols of the Passion (including, in fact, the singing rooster announced the betrayal of Peter), and has been closed since containing a fragment of the .
Today as before, the camalli (the transportation workers insurance, with the common dialect word which also indicate the drainage port), wearing the hood fabric with the colors of the Brotherhoods, white with various colored ribbons, or red ( Brotherhood of the Holy Trinity) or blue (confraternity of Santa Maria di Castello), with a cap once fell on his head as a sign of humility and anonymity, today, more commonly, folded and attached to the collar.
Its origin is connected to the installation of ten speakers, site of the fraternities located on the hill of near the ancient cathedral of Our Lady of the Castle, between the and fourteenth century .
The speakers were the headquarters of the Confraternity of lay governing fate following the penitential fervor spread to Liguria since the thirteenth century . Speakers in the Brothers gathered to pray and perform acts of penance and public assistance (discipline).
Public floggings were accompanied by processions of penitence.During Holy Week each fraternity organized or individually or in separate groups - according to the alliance-a procession that was held on Thursday or Friday. During this procession is stable to keep the custom of sacred representations mimicking the key moments of the Passion.
The Statutes of - 1405 , as in subsequent years of 1610 , there are references to the Good Friday procession.
Instead it is often mentioned in the decrees of ecclesiastical authority, calling the order and sought to limit its excesses, such as shouting and the use of "guns de rota (primitive firearms). Already in 1530 the Vicar General asked the fraternities to maintain the penitential procession with features originating, the floggings, urging them to suspend the sacred source of disorder.
Since 1528 , with the victory of the Republic of Genoa to Savona , began the demolition of the citadel on Priamar with the cathedral and speakers attached. The Brotherhoods is gradually reduced from ten to six current and the speakers were gradually rebuilt in the plain between the hill Priamar and to Monticello.In particular, the life of fraternities Savona had a strong impetus after 1536 , thanks to renewed popular religious fervor by the appearance of Our Lady of Mercy .
With the Council of Trent confraternities were under the jurisdiction of the diocesan bishops, who attempted to regulate relations between the various tumultuous speakers and tried to ban the sacred, now considered unseemly and ridiculous and a source of unrest continue.
To meet these requirements without sacrificing the grandeur of the spectacular procession on Good Friday, confraternities, similar to what happened in nearby Genoa, groups began to acquire their wood statically representing the Stations of the Cross, that is precisely the speakers.Nevertheless, the practice continued to organize their own procession.
A chronicle of the 1751 identified three separate processions in which the brothers wore shoulder lanes for citizens groups, the heavy wood, singing psalms and litanies. He then added drum rolls and violins to accompany the songs.
In the Napoleonic era or the beginning of the ' , the unstable political situation in the and the complexity of the rites of the Passion were needed to be stricter rules on public order and the religious aspect: the municipal authorities forbade to hold more processions in the evening and a bishop's decree of 1810 fixed the order of speakers according to the Gospel story with no differences between fraternities and established timetables, route, stops and the musical accompaniment, giving the organizational responsibility to the Prior of the brotherhood that it was the turn of Oratory Superior General.
This responsibility, organizational expenses, spent every year by a brotherhood to another, according to a rota established which provided for the honor (and burden) to the Brotherhood chosen to open the procession with his Cross and Passion to close with its shrine of the Holy Cross.
A decree of the bishop in 1813 further clarified the list of speakers to bring: "Adam and Eve", "Agony in the Garden," "Jesus to the column," "Flagellation", "Crowning with Thorns," "Ecce Homo" "Christ falls beneath the Cross," "Christ breathed," "Dead Christ", "Deposition from the Cross", "Our Lady of Sorrows" and "Holy Cross".
In 1830 serious incidents of protest to the occupants of the Kingdom of Sardinia forbade the use of the cap on his head. Since then, the Brothers continue to wear it, folded and resting on his shoulders as a sign of the original meaning of complete anonymity.
Followed by other regulations which resumed and strengthened the rules of their predecessors.
In 1926 the parade were added two new funds: "The Annunciation" by Maragliano, entered the heritage of the brotherhood of the Risen Christ after transferring its headquarters in the old convent church of the Annunciation, which belonged to the wooden group, and " Kiss of Judas ", commissioned by the Brotherhood of Saints Augustine and Monica Joseph all'altoatesino Runggaldier.
In more recent times, namely in 1978 , the fund "Ecce Homo" by Renata Cuneo replaced the eighteenth century work of Tower, was destroyed during the Second World War . Even the musical accompaniment followed changes in the liturgy remained unchanged while some motets.

CICCIULIN AND CARNIVAL IN SAVONA

Cicciulin is the King of the Carnival of Savona in 1953 when the painter Romeo Bevilacqua pictured him as a gruff sailor.Cicciulin has had seven children with seven different wives, of course, one for each port!It 'also a man of noble and generous and is very attached to his town, he wears three necklaces, a green that represents the hills of Savona, a brown represents the earth and one that pays homage to the blue sea.It 's always accompanied by a lady called "A Signua" the bridesmaids, the commoners, the jester and his seven children sailors.Each year with the arrival by sea January 17, received a loud party masks from friends and people from all walks of Savona, Cicciulin goes to town to take the keys of the city and beginning to give way to crazy Carnival time!