Enlarge for best view if you have time; thank you. Shot taken on Good Friday.
In the morning of Good Friday I met a Gozitan friend who I hadn’t seen for some months and after some chatting I asked which Good Friday procession/pageant was best to watch that evening and he suggested the one held in Xgħara (pron:sha –ra). So we decided to go there. If Christine and I were on our own we would have been there before the procession started but with Denise, Ian and Max with us we arrived when the last but one statue was coming out of the church. However, it made a lovely view with the town square full of watching spectators. I had to raise my camera as far as possible above my head to take this shot and I think it came out really good.
Joke: It was Palm Sunday but because of a sore throat, 5-year-old Johnny stayed home from church with a sitter. When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm fronds. Johnny asked them what they were for.
"People held them over Jesus' head as he walked by," his father told him.
"Wouldn't you know it," Johnny fumed, "the one Sunday I don't go and he shows up."
Thank you very much for looking and for all the wonderful comments on yesterday's shot.
What a beautiful picture, Dione, and perfectly colorized! It must have been an amazing procession to see in person! Than k you for giving the pronunciation of that otherwise-impossible name!.
A great view and capture of this great event.
In our country it becomes a tradition of doing the passion in a city with popular artist`s and new songs on a modern way. . It`s on TV and millions of people are watching this. While they doing this a procession goes trough the city and people carries a withe lighted cross to the place of acting .
In our country it becomes a tradition of doing the passion in a city with popular artist`s and new songs on a modern way. . It`s on TV and millions of people are watching this. While they doing this a procession goes trough the city and people carries a withe lighted cross to the place of acting .