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And goes to give mass.
The allusion “dressed in humanity” is a reference to the fact that the covered
priest represents Jesus Christ, whom is God and man. In other words, has Divinity and
Humanity. With this the procession is finalized and mass is celebrated.
The vespers of the Holy Trinity holiday and of San Cosme and San Damián
cleared out the church. The bells were rung for a long time and the vespers were
counted. ON the day of the holiday, there was Angelis mass given in Latin preaching of
the hand bells. Before mass, there was a procession. The Holy Trinity holiday is
celebrated on the Sunday prior to the Corpus Christi. As was said previously, the holiday
of Santa Barbara transferred to this holiday in order to take advantage of the good
weather, since December is very cold. That is why during this holiday, the images of
Santa Barbara and of San Cosme are taken out and they did pilgrimages.
Since Ciadoncha does not have a monastery, they took out the images in a
procession on the roads and young men and women would be in front of the images
dancing to music from the bagpipe and drums. This takes place before the mass. After
mass, they dance in the plaza, in front of the Bar, with music from all the bagpipes and
drums that played during the pilgrimage (video provided by Orencio Pérez Cascajar).
Also, before it was customary to have a good ball game in the ball court and popular food
was based on paella and chicken from the farm.
The holiday of Corpus Christi is also very solemn and the Holy Sacrament is
taken out in procession. Altars are separated where the Holy Sacrament is place and a
prayer is done. They pass through the streets and flower petals are thrown at the passing
of the Holy Sacrament.
Procession during the holiday of Corpus Christ.
Photo provided by Federico Varona.
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