{"id":6307,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-feast-of-the-madonna-della-luce\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:27","slug":"the-feast-of-the-madonna-della-luce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/giants-of-mistretta\/the-feast-of-the-madonna-della-luce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of the Madonna della Luce"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Feast of the Madonna della Luce <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">During the Feast of the <em>Madonna della Luce<\/em>&nbsp;(Our Lady of Light), the <em>Gesanti<\/em> parade and perform in an spirited ritual made up of bows and &#8220;greetings&#8221;, which culminates with a wild and dangerous ride (in dialect, the <em>furriata<\/em>), accompanied by shouts of encouragement and applause by the people. Throughout the year, the puppets of Cronos and Mitya reside in a small church; on 6 September they are carried out for the famous promenade and the next day they return to take custody of the Madonna and escort her in a procession, dancing to the beat of a drum. On 7 September, in fact, the seventeenth-century statue of the Madonna, lying on the typical Sicilian pageant, the <em>lavaretta<\/em>, leaves the church flanked by the two giants.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Feast of the Madonna della Luce During the Feast of the Madonna della Luce&nbsp;(Our Lady of Light), the Gesanti parade and perform in an spirited ritual made up of bows and &#8220;greetings&#8221;, which culminates with a wild and dangerous ride (in dialect, the furriata),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6306,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11667,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6307\/revisions\/11667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}