Purification and Rebirth: Passing Through the Holy Door Every significant human experience, endowed with particular symbolic and relational intensity, produces a reshaping of identity in those who experience it. The structure of values that composes the deepest part of the concept of self—and the image each individual projects to the world—when faced with highly emotionally charged events, can foster processes of identity redefinition and the emergence of new forms of self-representation. These transformations are reflected in social practices, guiding behavioral choices, biographical trajectories, and redefinitions of social roles. Thus, for some people, the experience of passing through the Holy Door produces a feeling that calls into question their priorities and the path of their existence. From this perspective, the experience of passing through appears, for those individuals, as an event capable of producing an intense reworking of existential priorities and orientations of meaning. Through in-depth interviews, this paper aims to analyze the stages of preparation for the pilgrimage, the ritual experiences, the emerging emotional dimensions, and any transformations that have occurred in the lives of the faithful.