Usually on Good Friday, Perpignan and other towns in the French Catalonia celebrate with the procession of La Sanch, full of people in peaked, masked robes. These are not the world’s most fashionable garments, so perhaps an explanation is required.
Originally, the brotherhood of La Sanch (the blood) was founded in 1416 at the church of St Jacques in Perpignan to accompany condemned prisoners to their execution. The capes were intended to protect them from being lynched by the crowd and to ensure they received a religious burial. Over the centuries, other elements have been added to the procession, like symbols for the stations of the cross that penitents in carry on their shoulders. This makes for a colourful spectacle.
Evidently the Catholic church has not always been comfortable with the procession, as it has been forbidden several times over the centuries but it has always been resurrected. Except, of course, in 2020 and 2021.
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