THE PROCESSIONAL RITES OF HOLY WEEK TAKE PLACE IN ALMOST
ALL THE MUNICIPALITIES OF APULIA: WE HAVE SELECTED FOR YOU THE PROCESSIONAL EVENTS THAT ARE CHARACTERISED BY THEIR TYPICALITY AND PECULIARITY.
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WEDNESDAY OF THE CENES / 14 February 2023
• MOLFETTA (BA) / Procession of the Cross / Purgatory Church / 0.01 a.m.
by the Archconfraternity of the Black Sack Death
• ANDRIA (BAT) / Procession of the Holy Thorn / Cathedral / 6.00 p.m.
FRIDAYS OF PASSION / 22 March 2023
• BITONTO (BA) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Cathedral / 9.30 am
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / Good Friday of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo / 12.00 noon
• MOLFETTA (BA) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Purgatory Church / 3.15 p.m.
• RUVO DI PUGLIA (BA) / Procession of the Desolate / S. Domenico Church / 5.00 p.m.
• CANOSA DI PUGLIA (BAT) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of San Sabino / 5.30 p.m.
• GROTTAGLIE (TA) / Procession of the Desolata / Chiesa Matrice / 6.30 p.m.
• ANDRIA (BAT) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of S. Francesco d'Assisi / 7.00 p.m.
• CONVERSANO (BA) / Way of the Cross / Through the main streets and the old town / 7.00 p.m.
• FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of Santa Chiara / 7 p.m.
• VALENZANO (BA) / Inter-parish Way of the Cross with the image of Our Lady of Sorrows / 7.30 p.m.
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Lighting of the fanoja / Church of Our Lady of Sorrows / 8 p.m.
SATURDAY OF PASSION / 23 March 2023
• GROTTAGLIE (TA) / Living Passion / Historical Centre / 7 pm
• GINOSA (TA) / Living Passion ''Passio Christi'' / Historic Centre / 7.30 p.m.
SUNDAY OF PALMS / 24 March 2023
• FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR) / Procession of the Cross / Through the town streets / 9.00 am
• TROIA (FG) / Living Passion / Church of the Madonna della Mediatrice through the town streets / 3.00 p.m.
HOLY THURSDAY / 28 March 2023
• RUVO DI PUGLIA (BA) / Procession of the "Deposition" or of the "Eight Saints" / Church of San Rocco / 2.00 a.m.
• MONTE SANT'ANGELO (FG) / The Grain of the Sepulchre (lu 'rene dlu subbuleche) / Church of San Benedetto / 5 pm
• PULSANO (TA) / Pilgrimage of the 'Perduni' / Purgatorio Church / 5 pm
• VICO DEL GARGANO (FG) / Holy Mass "In Coena Domini" / All Churches / 5 p.m.
• FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR) / ''Pappamusci'' Pilgrimage through the streets of the town / 6 p.m.
• GROTTAGLIE (TA) / Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ('Sepolcri') by the Brothers of Carmine (Bbubbli Bbubbli) / Oratorio del Carmine / 6.30 p.m.
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / The confraternities, in dress, will processionally visit the altars of the Reposition set up / Borgo antico / 7.30 p.m.
• NOICATTARO (BA) / Lighting of bonfires / Chiesa Madonna della Lama / 7.30 pm
• CONVERSANO (BA) / Lighting of the Bonfire of Our Lady of Sorrows / Calvary / 8.00 p.m.
• NOICATTARO (BA) / Procession of the First Crucifer / Madonna della Lama Church / 8.00 p.m.
• VICO DEL GARGANO (FG) / Uffizio delle Tenebre sung by the voices of the Confraternities and final "schopp" / Chiesa del Carmine, Chiesa S. Giuseppe, Chiesa della Misericordia, Chiesa S. Nicola and Chiesa del Purgatorio / 8.30 p.m.
• BITONTO (BA) / Night tour of the band singing traditional funeral marches / 11.30 p.m.
HOLY FRIDAY / 29 March 2023
• TARANTO / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / S. Domenico Maggiore Church / 0.01 am
• CONVERSANO (BA) / Procession of the Black Christ / Church of Santa Maria dell'Isola (about 1 km from the town centre) / 3.00 a.m.
• MOLFETTA (BA) / Procession of the Five Mysteries / Church of S. Stefano / 3.30 am
• BITONTO (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries / S. Domenico Church / 4.30 am
• CORATO (BA) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of San Giuseppe / 4.50 a.m.
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows with Stabat Mater Arciconfraternita dei Sette Dolori / Church of Our Lady of Sorrows / 5.30 a.m.
• VALENZANO (BA) / Gathering of the Sacred Mysteries / Corso A. Moro / 8.00 a.m.
• VICO DEL GARGANO (FG) / Morning Penitential Procession / All the churches / 8.00 am
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / The Confraternities in processional dress visit the altars of the Reposition set up in the old town / Borgo antico / 9.00 am
• BISCEGLIE (BAT) / Procession of the Meeting / Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, Calvary area / 9.30 am
• TROIA (FG) / Procession of the "Chains" / Church of Sant'Anna / 10.00 am
• CONVERSANO (BA) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Chiesa del Carmine / 10.30 am
• VALENZANO (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries / Corso A. Moro / 10.30 a.m.
• VALENZANO (BA) / The parish priest places the crucifix in the hands of Mary of Sorrows / Chiesa San Rocco / 3 p.m.
• VICO DEL GARGANO (FG) / Mad Mass and Afternoon Agony / Purgatory Church / 3.00 p.m.
• CONVERSANO (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries and the Holy Wood / Church of the Passion / 4 p.m.
• PULSANO (TA) / Procession of the Mysteries / Purgatory Church / 4 p.m.
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / Procession of the Mysteries and the Dead Christ / Oratorio Confr.le del SS. Crocifisso / 5 p.m.
• MONTE SANT'ANGELO (FG) / Procession of the Dead Christ / Church of San Francesco / 5 p.m.
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Church of Sant'Antonio Abate / 5.00 p.m.
• TARANTO / Procession of the Mysteries / Chiesa del Carmine / 5.00 p.m.
• RUVO DI PUGLIA (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries / Chiesa del Carmine / 5.30 p.m.
• BISCEGLIE (BAT) / Procession of the Mysteries / Purgatorio Church / 6.00 p.m.
• BITONTO (BA) / Good Friday Solemn Procession / Purgatorio Church / 6 pm
• CORATO (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries / Church of San Giuseppe / 6 pm
• GALATINA (LE) / Good Friday / Church of Addolorata / 6 pm
• GROTTAGLIE (TA) / Procession of the Mysteries of the Purgatory Confession / Chiesa Matrice / 6 p.m.
• VICO DEL GARGANO (FG) / Solemn evening procession / Departure and return to the Chiesa Matrice / 6 p.m.
• ANDRIA (BAT) / Procession of the Sorrowful Mysteries / Chiesa del Purgatorio / 7 p.m.
• FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR) / Procession of the Mysteries "Ad Tenebras" / Through the streets of the town / 7 p.m.
• CANOSA DI PUGLIA (BAT) / Procession of the Mysteries / Chiesa del Carmine / 7.30 p.m.
• CASTELLANA GROTTE (BA) / Good Friday / Chiesa Matrice S. Leone Magno / 8.00 p.m.
• NOICATTARO (BA) / Procession of the "Naka" / Madonna della Lama Church / 8.00 p.m.
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Dead Christ accompanied by the lit Fracchie / Church of Our Lady of Sorrows / 8.00 p.m.
• TROIA (FG) / Procession of the Mysteries / Cathedral / 8.00 p.m.
• ALBEROBELLO (BA) /Living Passion / Piazzale Indipendenza / 9.00 p.m.
HOLY SATURDAY / 30 March 2023
• NOICATTARO (BA) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows / Chiesa Santa Maria della Pace / 2.00 p.m.
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / Procession of the Madonna Desolata / Chiesa della Purità / 2.30 a.m.
• GALATINA (LE) / Holy Saturday / Church of Our Lady of Sorrows / 5.30 a.m.
• BOTRUGNO (LE) / Procession with the statues of the Dead Jesus and Our Lady of Sorrows / Cappella dell'Assunta / 6.00 am
• CASTELLANA GROTTE (BA) / Holy Saturday / Church of Sant'Onofrio / 7.00 am
• CORATO (BA) / Procession of the Pietà / Church of Santa Maria Greca / 7.50 am
• CANOSA DI PUGLIA (BAT) / Procession of the Desolate / Church of Saints Francis and Blaise / 9.00 am
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Living Passion Play / Through the streets of the town / 10.00 am
• MOLFETTA (BA) / Procession of the Pietà / Purgatory Church / 11.15 am
• NOICATTARO (BA) / Procession of the Mysteries / Madonna della Lama Church / 3.00 p.m.
• RUVO DI PUGLIA (BA) / Procession of the "Pietà" / Purgatorio Church / 4.30 p.m.
• GINOSA (TA) / Passio Christi / Historic Centre / 7.30 p.m.
EASTER SUNDAY / 31 March 2023
• RUVO DI PUGLIA (BA) / Procession of the Risen Jesus - Explosion of the Quarantana / St. Dominic's Church / 9.30 am
• TROIA (FG) / Procession of the Kiss / Church of San Domenico and Church of San Francesco / 10.00 am
• GALLIPOLI (LE) / Bursting of the Caremma / Borgo Antico / 12.00 noon
• SAN MARCO IN LAMIS (FG) / Procession of Our Lady of Sorrows in full dress / Chiesa dell'Addolorata / 12.01 am
• FRANCAVILLA FONTANA (BR) /Procession of the Risen Christ / Chiesa Immacolata / 6.00 p.m.
