This edict regulates behaviour during Holy Week processions and visits to the monuments in Barcelona, aiming to preserve decorum, devotion, and penitential discipline. It condemns profane actions, inappropriate sounds, and emotional disorder. The document thus functions as a tool of moral and sensory control, shaping both the auditory environment and the emotional experience of urban ritual. Here are representative extracts:

The document establishes the emotional framework of the Passion stating how it should be experienced collectively:

“…ab totals demostracions, y efectes de verdadera contricio, y penitencia, […] ab vivas llàgrimas, y entranyable dolor de son cor devian plorar aquells…”

The edict condemns improper behaviour in sacred space, highlighting emotional disorder and lack of reverence:

“…fent indecencias, y escandols en lo Temple de Deu […] fan mofa, y burla de alguns dels Passos […] quant ab vivas llàgrimas […] devian plorar aquells…”

Regulation of sound within the ritual space, explicitly prohibiting disruptive acoustic behaviours:

“…no […] parlar, cridar, ni dormir ab escandol dels demes […] ni alboroten lo Temple de Deu…”

Sounds within processions and their role in shaping collective perception:

“…com son los Centurions armats, atambors, y cajas destrempadas […] pera commoure lo poble Christia à devocio…”

Tension between acceptable and unacceptable emotional responses, particularly mockery versus devotion:

“…no se atrevescan inquietar, burlar-se, riurer, ni mofar-se de aquells […] en gran menyspreu de la contemplacio de la Passio…”

Connection of sound with moral disorder and collective disturbance:

“…tirantlos pedras, y cridant, y alborotant lo Temple de Deu, carrers, y places, fent altras profanitats, causant gran escandol als que ho mirauan, y oyan…”

“…no parlen cosas deshonestas, ni canten cançons profanas, que distraguen de devocio als que las oyran…”

Prescriptive emotions linking behaviour to salvation:

“…attendent a la devocio, y pietat Christiana […] no facian […] actes profans […] perque fentho axi […] pugan esperar la salvacio, y gloria eterna…”