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Monday, September 20, 2010

After the beautiful summer Bahia del Sol at Torre Lapillo, before returning to Tuscany I could not exclude the occurrence of choice for these areas: the feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino. For the event the town's streets are brilliantly decorated, thus making these the most important almost three days of Christmas.

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Part of the folk festival at hand, we see more in detail who was St. Joseph Cupertino, also known as "The Flying Saint." In 1603, Joseph Desa was born in Cupertino in a small barn, above which is then sort the church in his honor. As a young man took his vows as a Franciscan priest and passed The successive 17 years in the Shrine of Grottella, a few kilometers from the town center. Here took place the alleged miracles of which he is famous: levitation and ubiquity. Who knows ... the only certainty is that the shrine took place phenomena difficult to explain, because the situation attracted the attention of the Court of the Inquisition, which, floggings were not enough that the friar is self inflicted (for the time a common practice), took him to trial twice. To this were due to transfers from one monastery to another hammering of central Italy, until his death Oct. 18, 1657 in Osimo. Finally in 1767 the sanctification by the hand of Clement XIII.

Since then, every 17 September, in addition to the folklore of the festival takes place on the crowded transport of the statue of the saint. It all starts from the Church of St. Joseph, where, in perfect Decameron, are preserved and worshiped a fine collection of relics.

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From the little church in front of the statue is then transported to the main churches in the country and subsequently filed two weeks in the Mother Church. This transport has a history somewhat 'troubled, seeing the monks oppose the Shrine of Grottella with the priests of the country, opposition in the eighteenth century. was realized even with beatings and crashes on the road. The point is that certain interests want Grottella procession towards the statue, while others in the Church and most important centers of the country, the array precisely. But what are we talking about exactly? Good question! In two weeks away, the statue recalls a flood of pilgrims from middle region, ergo: a good dose of vision and, above all donations, so many donations ... pace of the friars of Grottella who apparently have today off with a match in hand, but given their noble vow of poverty, Franciscans certainly do not have it bad.

from the bell tower