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Holy Thursday Review
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Holy Thursday
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On Holy Thursday at the Duomo, 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, and then the priests wash the feet of the confraternity members.
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