The Good Friday in Sicily

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In my origin town (home town; or, the town I am from), in Sicily, the Good Friday is the most solemn holiday of the year, despite being a mournful recurrence. All the people stop their activities to celebrate and mourn the Jesus' death.
It could seem strange to other cultures that in a sad day al like that we have the most important celebrations of the year, but this fact probably reflects the deep respect of Sicilian people for the dead. This is certainly a legacy of ancient people who lived in the isle.
The celebrations for the Good Friday starts on the Thursday night, after the commemoration of the Last Supper.  All night long some women, called 'catholic women', pray together in the chapel of Lady of Sorrows singing a traditional rosary in the local dialect. At midnight a man with a trumpet starts to go all arround the town.  He stops on every crossroad and plays 'the silence'. Most of people are sleeping, but many of them can hear this music and pray.  [Is 'the silence' the name of a song?]
At dawn it starts the first big celebration: the procession of the Lord of the Morning. A sculpture of a dead Jesus Christ within his coffin, laying on a bed covered with camellia petals, is brought by six men in traditional costumes along the roads of the town, followed by hundreds of silent people. The procession goes also along a beautiful promenade, at that time the sun reflects on the sea. Those are moments of reflection (or meditation) and prayer.
The second big moment takes place in the afternoon. It is called 'The fall from the Cross'. It is almost the sunset and a pray-er, or a monk, stands aside a big Cross with a life-sized sculpture of Jesus put in a square at the top of a rock on the sea. There are so many people. Six men stay at the foot of the Cross and have to remove the nails from the Jesus' hands and the feet. At every nail the orator delivers a statement, usually about the God's forgiveness. When all the nails are removed, Jesus Christ is put on an opened coffin with a bed covered with camellia's petals. So starts the third big event: the procession of the Lord of the Evening. At the same time starts the procession of the Lady of Sorrows from another place in the town. After few hundred meters the Lady meets Jesus Christ on a crossroad where a huge crowd is gathered. Henceforth they go on together all along the main roads of the Town for about four hours.
The celebrations end with the speech that the same pray-er (or monk) of the Fall holds before the departure of Jesus from the Lady. It is the last solemn event. Then we wait for the Easter.

[English uses "the" very different than Italian does]