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Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic – 18 April 2025
1. Crowd rattling on cobbles with wooden carts
2. Close-up of the wooden carts
3. Various of people in masks and cloaks preparing for ratling
4. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Vitezslav Marcik, former organizer and current participant:
"People always ask me which year this started. I don’t know exactly because I don’t write things down. We’ve been trying to track it down. I guess it was seventeen years ago when we went here to Piarist Square on Good Friday at noon, and there were twelve of us."
5. Mid of people with wooden carts making the rattling sound
6. Boy using a megaphone
7. Wide of crowd rattling and carrying crucifix passing a local church
8. Close-up of people holding the table with the cross on top
9. Various shots of people erecting a cross in the city square
10. Participants watching the erection of the cross
11. Close-up of masked boy
12. Man nailing sign on the cross
13. Crowd passing one of the crosses in the square
14. Close-up of the wooden carts
15. SOUNDBITE (Czech), Vitezslav Marcik, former organizer and current participant:
"Since then, it’s gotten bigger, and now it’s about a hundred people actively participating – families, my family, many friends, and other families. We’re not organized, but we always manage to get together, and it’s beautiful. So thank you to all of them."
16. Participants and Marcik thanking each other
STORYLINE:
People dressed in black suits and white masks pushed small carts along cobbled streets in the southern Czech city of Ceske Budejovice on Friday in a revival of an Easter tradition.
In several European countries, the church bells fall silent in the evening on Maundy Thursday — according to tradition, they fly home to Rome — and don’t sound again until Easter Sunday.
At that time, believers in several countries, including the Czech Republic and Austria, hold noisy processions to call people to prayers.
While in Austria and elsewhere, people use wooden rattles to make the noise, believers in Ceske Budejovice use small wooden carts for the Easter rattling, or clattering, as it’s also known.
"I guess it was 17 years ago when we went here to Piarist Square on Good Friday at noon, and there were 12 of us," said Vitezslav Marcik, a former organizer and current participant, talking about the beginning of the tradition.
"Since then, it’s gotten bigger, and now it’s about a hundred people actively participating," he added.
The procession is held four times a day, and participants wear white masks to reflect the mystery of Easter as they march on the cobbled streets in the city’s historic center.
Specifically on Friday, the participants headed to the main square, where they erected hand-carved crosses to commemorate the Crucifixion.
AP Video by Stanislav Hodina
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