{"id":7364,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/giants-in-north-eastern-sicily\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:25","slug":"giants-in-north-eastern-sicily","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/giants-in-sicily-and-calabria\/giants-in-north-eastern-sicily\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giants in north-eastern Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Giants in north-eastern Sicily <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>The connection between the myth of giants and religion in preserved and underlined <span>in southern-Italy&#8217;s giant repertoire<\/span>&nbsp;also by other enormous figures: the<\/span>&nbsp;<em>Santoni<\/em>&nbsp;of Modica (Syracuse), that represent the Apostoles (among them there is perhaps a Giant representing Saint Cristopher); the Saint Peter of Caltagirone (Catania); the&nbsp;<em>Santoni<\/em>&nbsp;of Aidone and Barrafranca (Enna); the&nbsp;<em>Sampauluna<\/em>&nbsp;of San Cataldo (Caltanissetta). These are giants which parade on Easter Sunday (in the case of Barrafranca also on Holy Friday, together with Mary,&nbsp;<em>l&#8217;Addolorata<\/em>) in order to give the good news of Christ&#8217;s Resurrection to the Madonna.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants in north-eastern Sicily The connection between the myth of giants and religion in preserved and underlined in southern-Italy&#8217;s giant repertoire&nbsp;also by other enormous figures: the&nbsp;Santoni&nbsp;of Modica (Syracuse), that represent the Apostoles (among them there is perhaps a Giant representing Saint Cristopher); the Saint&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6564,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7364","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7364","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=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11639,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7364\/revisions\/11639"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}