Every year on Good Friday, since 1962, the squares and the streets of Mogliano lead us to re-live the religious event the last hours of Jesus Christ’s life, through an historical re-enactment among the most spectacular and original of the Marche in this genre. At 09:00 p.m. the public lights in the village turn off and the streets and squares are transformed in some sort of pictures that revive the last hours of Jesus Christ’s life. The re-enactment begins with the representation of the Last Supper on the flight of steps of the historic "Hospital" in San Michele square: a scene peculiar to Mogliano and a few other places in Italy. In Piazza Garibaldi is then represented the trial before Pontius Pilate, after which is the procession of the more than three hundred participants to the Via Crucis, starting from the main Street of Via Roma, to the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross, where “Christ dies together with the two thieves”. A Jewish crowd, Roman soldiers on horseback and foot soldiers, a religious procession with The Coffin of the Dead Christ, effigies of saints, symbols of the Passion and the band: this all is Mogliano. The Good Friday procession is annually conducted since 1769, and documented in the archives of Carnilli, historician from Mogliano. The re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus Christ represents a moment of reflection on the pain the Son of Man and a tourist attraction; therefore the greatest care is used in faithfully recreate the biblical text and the dialogues, to allow a greater emotional involvement of the faithful. The dialogues are entirely recited live and occasionally accompanied by a narrator’s voice widespread in all the streets to increase an emotional involvement.
To see: Mogliano – Church of S. Gregorio Magno, Mogliano - Church and Convent of S. Colomba
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Born in Venice around 1480, the young artist Lorenzo Lotto chose to move to Treviso. There Lotto formed a relationship with the humanist circle of Bishop Bernardo De Rossi from Parma, which straight away provided him with advantageous and profitable commissions. In 1508 Lotto was called to the Vatican in Rome to paint the rooms of the new apartment of Julius II. During the period between 1509 and 1516 the movements of the Venetian artist are somewhat obscure. The following decade, spent in Bergamo, was undoubtedly Lotto’s happiest and most creative period. At the end of 1525, after an absence of 20 years, he decided to return to Venice where however the rising star of Titian, with his sensuous and joyful painting, precluded the favour of the patrons towards Lotto. He died in the Marche in 1556 and was buried, at his request, in a Dominican friar’s habit. Lotto accomplished many works in the Marche, providing testimony to his genius and his remarkable personality.
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