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Those who choose to wear the blue habit fulfil a vow, a promise, and, hiding their face, as if wanting to erase their identity for a few hours, to escape pride and exhibitionism, they go unnoticed by the curious looks of the people and the photographers&#8217; lenses, finally gathering in an intimate dialogue with Jesus, to whom they entrust themselves completely.<\/p>\n<p> In the afternoon, the image of Christ is placed in the Sapurcu (the <em>Tomb<\/em>), a large mausoleum set up with red and yellow cloths, which is illuminated by hundreds of candles, evoking the Judgment Hall of Pilate. The next day, at the end of the Mass dedicated to suffering, the image of Christ, having passed through the people in prayer, with dozens of hands outstretched to touch them, is brought back to His chapel, where He will be laid for the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 33 Babbaluti, as many years as Christ lived, wear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":52559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1942],"tags":[],"luogo":[1864],"stagione":[1877],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Festa del SS Crocifisso di Aracoeli and the Processione dei Babbaluti - Visit Sicily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Festa del SS Crocifisso di Aracoeli and the Processione dei Babbaluti, San Marco d&#039;Alunzio, San Marco d&#039;Alunzio, Easter in Sicily\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Festa del SS Crocifisso di Aracoeli and the Processione dei Babbaluti - 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