Ethnologica Dalmatica, Vol. 26 , 2019.
Original scientific paper
Holy Week In the Cultural Heritage of Ston and Broce
Marina Asturić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-8372
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Poljička cesta 35, 21000 Split
Abstract
Processions and rituals are remembered and recorded for the Christian holidays in the cultural heritage of Ston and Broce, just like the blessings from the priest. There are processions during the Palm Sunday and Holy Friday. Christians in Ston are going through their streets and they are going around the Ston. After the circle, they go to church again. This work represents examples from Ston and Broce, places on the peninsula Pelješac. they are based on the celebration of Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday. Traditions are relatively saved, even among the younger generation, although people whom I've been working with are mostly elderly or in their medium years. There is big amount of tradition and they are related with the last days and death of Jesus Christ, but small city Ston have one specificity because of the Ston walls – walls are burning on the Good Friday and it's called illumination. There is also a magnificent burning cross on the tower Stoviš in the nucleus of the Ston walls.
Keywords
Holy Week; Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday); Good Friday (Holy Friday); Holy Saturday; illuminations; rituals; processions
Hrčak ID:
223304
URI
Publication date:
24.7.2019.
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