14 March 2021

 Lentorama 2021: Take Your Holiday to Go

Day 24: People's Sunday

Held on the first Sunday of Lent, this day (known as Ħadd in-Nies in Maltese) is local to Zabbar, Malta. It is a day to celebrate Mary as Out Lady of Graces, and dates back at least to the 15th century. The day started out as an Ash Wednesday pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Graces chapel in Zabbar to seek penance for the greater excesses of Carnival. As doing this on Ash Wednesday proved inconvenient given the other solemnities of that day, the observance moved to the first Sunday of Lent.

The actual festivities on the day seem to be fairly muted, focused mainly on processions with floats depicting Mary and the history of the town's devotion to her. 

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