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Holy Thursday
Holy Thursday Review
At the Duomo on Holy Thursday, a centuries-old ritual is reenacted with members of the Compagnia della Misericordia, a lay association that during the Renaissance comforted those condemned to death and provided dowries for poor girls as well as other services for its members. (Today the confraternity runs an efficient ambulance service.) A solemn procession of priests and confraternity members wends its way into the Duomo, then the priests wash the feet of the confraternity members.
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