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Bilder des Tages Italy: First Crucifer - Noicattaro At 20.00 from the Church of the Madonna della Lama - Noicattaro, begins the procession of the First Crucifer, the oldest Crociferous (not for his age, but for the years accumulated in the penitence of bearer ); he has the privilege of being accompanied by a small crowd, surrounded by torches and trozzue (wooden raganelle) dragged by the children. All this, most probably, wants to remember the escort of the Praetorians and the shouting mockery of the crowd that accompanied Jesus along the painful going from Caiaphas to Pilate, before the condemnation. The Crucifers, emblematic figures of the Nojan Holy Week, wear a black habit, with a hood that covers the face, carry a crown of thorns on the head, drag an iron chain to the foot barefoot and take a heavy cross on the shoulder that digs painful and deep DavidexPischettola