{"id":6591,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/patronal-feasts-in-southern-italy\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:21","slug":"patronal-feasts-in-southern-italy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts-in-southern-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Patronal Feasts in Southern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Patronal Feasts in Southern Italy <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mappa_feste_patronali_italia_meridionale_546x430.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"430\" alt=\"Feste patronali Italia meridionale\">Any Italian town has at least one Feast of a patron saint, to which other important religious observations are added. On such occasions, statues, statuary groups or scenic apparatuses (&#8220;machines&#8221;) are carried in procession in the streets of Italian cities to stage episodes inspired by the Holy Scriptures, the lives of the saints and the most famous <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/misteri\/\" title=\"Misteri\">mysteries<\/a> of the Christian religion. In most cases they consist in wonderful processional pageants of enormous size, variously referred to as <em>Vare<\/em>&nbsp;(as happens in the <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-vare-in-sicily\/the-vara-of-the-assumption-of-messina\/\" title=\"The Vara of the Assumption of Messina\">Feast of the Assumption of Messina<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-vare-in-sicily\/the-feast-of-santa-rosalia-in-palermo\/\" title=\"The Feast of Santa Rosalia in Palermo\">Santa Rosalia in Palermo<\/a>), <em>Ceri<\/em> (this is the case of the <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-vare-in-sicily\/the-feast-of-santagata-in-catania\/\" title=\"The Feast of Sant'Agata in Catania\"><em>Cannelore<\/em> of Sant&#8217;Agata<\/a>, of the <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts-in-campania\/the-feast-of-san-paolino-and-the-gigli-di-nola-naples\/\" title=\"The Feast of San Paolino and the Gigli di Nola (Naples)\"><em> Gigli<\/em> of Nola<\/a> and <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts-in-sardinia\/the-feast-of-the-assumption-and-the-candelieri-of-sassari\/\" title=\"The Feast of the Assumption and the Candelieri of Sassari\"><em> Candelieri<\/em> of Sassari<\/a>), <em>Carri<\/em> (such as that of <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts-in-sardinia\/the-feast-of-santefisio-in-cagliari\/\" title=\"The Feast of Sant'Efisio in Cagliari\">Sant&#8217;Efisio in Cagliari<\/a>) or the <em>Misteri<\/em> (in the case of those who march in the <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/campobasso\/\" title=\"Campobasso\"><em>Corpus Domini<\/em> of Campobasso<\/a>). The terms <em>vara<\/em> and <em>misteri<\/em> are also used to indicate the statuary groups that still see parading during <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-holy-week-in-southern-italy\/\" title=\"The Holy Week in Southern Italy\">Holy Week<\/a>. A particular type of Feast of patron saints or religious celebrations in which the <em>Vare<\/em> of the saints parade are the so-called <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/festivals-of-moors-and-christians-in-southern-italy\/\" title=\"Festivals of Moors and Christians in Southern Italy\">celebrations of Moors and Christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sometimes the Feasts of patronal saints nowadays, despite being just as rich in symbolic elements retain only some of the scenic apparatuses in vogue during the Baroque period (this is the case of the ceremonies in honour of <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts-in-campania\/the-feast-of-san-gennaro-in-naples\/\" title=\"The Feast of San Gennaro in Naples\">San Gennaro<\/a>). These scenic apparatuses, however, can still be found in the festivities in which the <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/giants\/\" title=\"Giants\">processional and parading Giants<\/a> play a major role. To participate now in the most important Feasts in southern Italy is an engrossing experience, as it allows you to relive the atmosphere which is only seemingly obsolete, in which each object, gesture and ritual has a strong symbolic connotation. The persistence or the reinvention of Italian Baroque elements in the Feasts in fact has something in common with our time: an age dominated by visual culture and new and an increasingly complex symbolic apparatuses and pervaded by a sensibility that, not surprisingly, has been called neo-Baroque.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/patronal-feasts\/\" title=\"Patronal Feasts\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;previous page<\/a> &nbsp; <a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-vare-in-sicily\/\" title=\"The Vare in Sicily\">next page&#8212;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patronal Feasts in Southern Italy Any Italian town has at least one Feast of a patron saint, to which other important religious observations are added. On such occasions, statues, statuary groups or scenic apparatuses (&#8220;machines&#8221;) are carried in procession in the streets of Italian cities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5900,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591","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=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6591\/revisions\/11593"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}