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Sanch Procession

Annual ceremony in French Catalonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 21, 2025
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The Procession de la Sanch is an annual ceremony in several towns in the French Catalonia. It is held during Holy Week on Good Friday. Historically, a distinctive peaked, masked robe was used to protect the identity of prisoners being led to their town's annual execution. This practical ceremony intermingled with Christian traditions of Good Friday, and today a long procession of black-robed people are led in silence by the red-robed regidor to the solemn tapping of a tambourine, as part of the Good Friday celebrations.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sanch Procession” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.