This year’s Good Friday processions seemed more subdued than they normally are, perhaps made even more somber by memories of the Abruzzo tragedy—at least in light of the passionate processions we saw in Sicily last spring.
At 8:30 pm in Aulla, the Lunigiana’s market town, the small procession started off from San Caprasio church (where the tomb of the ancient pilgrim and hermit Saint Caprasio still resides in the apse) and slowly made its way up the street, stopping at the stations of the cross.
The faithful follow the cross hoisted high, the one you see in the picture. People sing hymns softly to guitar accompaniment. At each station, the appropriate biblical tales are recounted under the dim streetlights on a chilly night in April.