Procession of the Triumph

Nine processional litters (andores) featured in this procession. Eight bore images of the Lord (the Lord in the Garden, of Patience, at the Column, of the Cold Stone, of the Green Reed, of the Stations of the Passion (passos, wayside oratories depicting scenes of Christ's Passion), on the Cross and on the Bier) and one bore an image of the Virgin, and each of these images had its own brotherhood. At the head of the procession went the processional banner, followed by the cross of penance and the brotherhood of the same name, in two files, with the women penitents walking two by two between them. The cross of the Third Order of Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) preceded the litters, and after the last litter came the confraternity of the same order, with the prior (title of the parish priest) carrying the scapulars proper to it. The prelate walked at the end of the procession, vested in the cappa magna (the bishop's long ceremonial cape with train), which was held by five seminarians.

All the litters carried cypresses, some six and others four, and it was the custom to adorn them with ranunculuses, anemones and other flowers; that of the Lord in the Garden also carried olive branches.

The processional robes were purple, except for those of the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora, which were blue and white, and those of the confraternity of the Third Order, which were brown and white. In former times the professed brethren wore a brown habit, a scapular and a white cape.

The procession of the Triumph, also called the Carmo procession because it set out from that church, ceased to be held some years before the proclamation of the Republic.