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