La Cercha is a liturgical drama that takes place on Good Friday, in Collesano, province of Palermo (Sicily).
According to a detail discovered in a canvas of the Sicilian painter Lo Zoppo di Ganci's a penitential procession like "la Cercha" was staged for the first time in 1623.
In addition, there are costumed actors representing Jesus carrying the cross, our Lady, the disciple John, the Holy women, the Centurion with his cohort of armed soldiers, Veronica and the angels.
Crucifix Brotherhood that tried inspiration by the Holy Friday procession made in Palermo in 1590 and 1951 by the Trinitary Congregation helped by the Spanish and Genoensis authorities that had their representative in the capital of the Island of Sicily.
The Disciplinantes of Osvaldo Opizzoni founded in a short time more than 10 brotherhoods who chose churches and oratories to prepare their rites.