Larantuka city in East Flores, is only a small city among other areas in East Nusa Tenggara Province, but Larantuka has a 500-year-old tradition, namely the procession of "Where Santa" during the Supreme Friday or Sesta Vera that is always perennial.
"Where Santa" is a pre-sufficient procession that is preceded by the satisfactory period or a sacred week. The religious tradition is the heritage of the Portuguese nation that spreads the Catholic religion and trades in the South Nusa Tenggara Islands.
The procession of Friday is the top of the "Where Santa" which begins from the celebration of Wednesday Trewa which this year falls on 12 April 2017.
A pilgrimage showed the miniature of the statue of Tuan Ma (Bunda Maria) when the celebration of the Supreme Friday Process at Larantuka, East Flores, NTT.
The pilgrims sent the statue of Jesus Crossed when the procession of the Sea's Laskar in Larantuka, East Flores, NTT.
In the evening Wednesday Trewa, a number of teenagers around Kapela Tuan Ma (Bunda Maria) and Kapela Tuan Ana (The Lord of Jesus) dragg the scrap zinc that then poses revival around the two chaela.
According to the Culture of Flores Timur Bernard Tukan, Trewa in the tradition of the Catholic Church means the sounds. This religious ritual, has been rarely done by other Catholic church, except in Larantuka diocese, which is stretched from the East Flores, Adonara Island, Solor, to Lembata.
The local Catholic church permits the sound of music or other object sounds, such as church bells up to 20.00 WITA. Released at 20.00, ahead of the celebration of the White Thursday on the next day, no longer sounds the sounds. Larantuka is soluble in a quiet story of Jesus Christ’s ephesus until the death in the crosswood on the Supreme Friday.
The amount of Conferia brought the cross and the candle during the celebration of the Supreme Friday in Larantuka, East Flores, NTT.
The pilgrimage struck the Tuara Ana (Tuhan Jesus) in Kapela Tuan tomb Ana Larantuka, East Flores, East NTT, East Lombok. The number of pilgrims during the next week.
Before doing the tradition of kissing Tuan, according to the tradition, the descendants of the king Larantuka Diaz Vieira Godinho opened the door Kapela Tuan Ma for pilgrims can enter and pray on the Lord Jesus through the intermediary of the Mother Mary (Per Mariam ad Jesum).
Furthermore, pilgrims from a variety of nusantara and foreigners began to perform "cium foot Tuan Ma and Tuan Ana" activities in the atmosphere of hening and sacred.
"The essay of Kissing Tuan Ma and Ana (currently Wes White), the people then invited to follow the procession of delivering the statue of the Lord Jesus who is involved in the way through the sea (in the procession of Friday Agung), and the arrangement of his eternal championship should be passed by the statue of Jesus who is crucified in a champ," said Tukan.
The process of the Sea’s Laskar is part of the Supreme Friday process is carried out on Fridays around 12.00. After praying at the chapel, the Tuan Meninu was assembled by the sea with a sacred event. The procession of the sea against this current ends at Pante Kuce, the front of the King Larantuka palace and continued various proceedings among which conveys the cross from the chapel to the stop of the statue (armida).
Then Arca Tuan Ma was assembled with Arca Tuan Ana to cathedral with the iring of thousands of people who became the top of Semana Santa on the Supreme Friday where people commemorate the derita of the process of death of Jesus in the procession of the crossroad. Arca Tuan Ana itself can only be thought by four people called Lakademu who dressed like a curcaci whose hat is worm-shaped.
The spirit surrounds the main road of Larantuka City which far reaches two to three kilometers but takes eight hours to get to the Cathedral Church. In the arak-arakan the pilgrims bless eight pieces of stop (armida) depicting the entire life of Jesus Christ before the end in the Larantuka Cathedral.
Where Santa is in the local language called Hari Bae people Nagi, ended on Sunday Alleluia, Easter day, which celebrates the victory of Jesus over death.
Photo and Text: Kaha Cornelis
