Good Friday in Enna!

Lily white Jesus in a glass enclosed, gilded coffin seems so melodramatic and completely unorganic to me. But this works for Sicily's Catholics. Here he is in church awaiting to be carried through the town.



Now I counted. And it required 80 men to hoist and schlep this down the streets. If you look closely, you can see the cloth covered heads below the coffin in a swaying step procession.



Jesus is followed by the Madonna. Here you can better see all the many heads of those carrying her.I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Sicilians are slightly obsessed with Mary. Joseph, the father that raised him, gets no props. It's all about the Virgin Mother.