The confraternity of Pio Monte del Purgatorio in Fasano, in the province of Brindisi, of which I was a member, was founded between the 1620s and the 1640s. Its statute established from the outset that membership of the confraternity was limited to a fixed number. New members were required to have the confraternity habit made: a robe or alb of white linen cloth, a black silk mozzetta (ormesino), to which the confraternity’s emblem is pinned (a painted medallion depicting the Souls in Purgatory), a cincture with a black silk tassel, and finally a white cloth hood, which, owing to recent public order laws, is no longer pulled down over the eyes but folded back over the head. The Church of Purgatory, the seat of the confraternity, holds 14 eighteenth-century canvases depicting the Stations of the Cross. They are paintings of the Neapolitan school, attributable to the same hand except for Stations VI and IX, by a more popular artist. Today’s confreres, no longer with the lost souls burning in the eternal flames of the medallions (except for the one in Station VI, a self-portrait), no longer with their hoods pulled down over their eyes, concentrate their week of passion into Good Friday alone. They take their confraternity habits out of the wardrobe, some of them over 70 years old, put them on over the accessories of twenty-first-century men and women, and for one evening at least, renew in their faces the sorrow of the Passion of Christ… In these shots, their timed sorrow, their posture, the colour of their skin are superimposed on the image of Christ perpetuating his sufferings…