The celebrations at Ripacandida are the most recent of the Lucanian Sacred Performances of the Passion of Christ. The Via Crucis involves around a hundred characters who participate in a procession much loved by the citizens. Among the more interesting characters, apart from Christ, we remember the Moor and the Gypsy. The Passion of Christ combines the highest religiosity with very deep popular sentiment which is typical of this part of Lucania, where performances of the Passion are a secular event, in which faith, religion and, in some parts, folklore, create a charming occasion. They are also the object of numerous anthropological studies.