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Bologna, December 12, 2020 – St. Lucia is the protector of view and is considered the patron saint of all those who have eye problems. the December 13th It is the day dedicated to their worship and, according to popular traditions, it was also the shortest day of the year. Hence the sayings: “Santa Lucia, the shortest day there is”or “Santa Lucia, the longest night there is”. Winter days are indeed short, but the longest night and the shortest day are those of Winter Solstice, the December 21.
These proverbs that play with the brevity of light in this period are the reason for the association of the saint with light, but so is the etymology of her name (from the Latin ‘lux’, light).
Lucia is the patroness from various municipalities and places in Italy. Is within Romagna of the municipalities of Savignano sul Rubicone and of Hagia Sophia, in the province of Forlì-Cesena, but she is also the patron of Casola Valsenio (Ravenna) and from Medicine, in the province of Bolonia (co-patron in this case of San Mamante). Saint Lucia was born in Syracuse and it is there that she suffered martyrdom under Emperor Diocletian. His cult was brought to Romagna in 5th century gives Sant’Orso, Bishop of Ravenna, but originally from Sicily.
By celebrate saint lucia, are organized every year parties and fairs. An opportunity for everyone and above all a great reason kids party. A tradition that is also associated with Christmas, with all its markets and gifts. But the strong point of the banquets organized for Saint Lucia are the desserts, especially the torrone that in certain places in Romagna, like Forlì me Savignano sul Rubicone, gives himself to girls and lovers.
Tradition says that Lucy it was once also known as single women protector: go to one of the many Masses celebrated on Saint Lucia’s Day for young women seeking husbands, especially those without a dowry, to publicize their desire to marry. Today, therefore, give away a piece of Okay artisan nougat to the lover it can still sound like a declaration of love or affection.
This year, due to Covid, all markets have been canceled, but the truth is that the one dedicated to the Saint was one of the sweetest with caramels, chocolate, bon bon, crunchies, nougat with almonds or walnuts, but also with the inevitable marzipan. There was no shortage of positions with toys, clothing and all handmade products who made the Christmas gift shopping lovely.
A Bologna, the Fair of Santa Lucia is the oldest in town. The traditional market has always been held in Street Higher, under the Portico dei Servi, next to the Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi, from November 17 to December 26. The choice of this place for the exhibition has a historical significanceas well as symbolic. In fact, the votive effigy of Saint Lucia is preserved in the basilica, but it all dates back to when Father Gregory XIIIAt the end of the 16th century, he donated to the Diocese of Bologna a relic of the saint. Jesuit fathers founded a church in via Castiglione, in which to keep the relic and dedicated it to Saint Lucia. It was on the entrance steps to that church that the first commercial activities of religious icons were born, especially in the periods of the year when the Saint’s functions and masses were organized. Later, with the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the arrival of Napoleon in 1796, that the fair was temporarily suspended.
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It was reactivated after the fall of Napoleon and with the restoration of the Church government. the portico of the Basilica of Santa Maria dei Servi It was the new place where the fair was organized, after the relic was also transferred, after the closure of the church in via Castiglione.
Using the origins plus religious of this party that today continues to be, more than anything, a reason for a Christmas meeting, a Forlì is still organized there eyes blessing and it is a very important moment for the people of Forlì.
Also this year the blessing, ma the eyes will not touch directly and all provisions to avoid meetings will be taken into account.
The appointment will be Sunday 13, from 9 in the morning, in the cloister adjoining the church of course of the republic. Inside the church, however, only the mess at 9, 11, 15, 17:30 and 19, always with the use of a mask, disinfectant and spacer.
The 11 o’clock mass, presided over by bishop, mons. Livio Armor, it will be a new stage of the Path of Hope proposed by him and will also be broadcast by Teleromagna about him channel 14. the offers collected during the party, in the spaces conditioned in compliance with anti-Covid regulations, will be Returned For him church of saint lucia and for him mission in the congo where the javeriano missionary Father Gino Foschi lived and worked for many years, who died in 2017.
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