The Madonna's cult Odigitria
The Madonna's cult Odigitria it was born and spread to Constantinople.
The Madonna's cult Odigitria
it was born and spread to Constantinople.
He/she is not known with precision when you/he/she was introduced to Palazzolo, we know that it became popular in the whole Sicily and Southern Italy, especially in the '600, so much that every country had a Church devoted to the virgin "guide of the street" protectress of the wayfarer and the pilgrim.
Patrona of Palazzolo up to 1689, the Madonna Odigitria was revered by the inhabitants of the tall district of the country, says of "St. Sebastiano". In this date it was replaced by St. P.aolo proclaimed apostle "patron" from the inhabitants of the low part of the country, said "Sampaolesi". You proclamation instigates a real "war of saints" between Sampaolesi and Sansebastianesi.
The Sansebastianesis held" illegal" the election, wrote on the fercolo of the madonna "Patrona Palatioli" and they kept cosi¬ on revering her/it, while the Sampaolesis wrote on theirs "it launches" "patronus principalis ".
If on one side the election of S. Paolo to "principal Patron" of Palazzolo was confirmed by the Sacred congregation of the rites July 15 th 1690dall'altra the nomination of the Madonna Odigitria to "Patrona Reale" you/he/she was reinstated by the monarch Spanish Phillip IV, with one decree of his special dated 14 September 1692.
These overlaps of "elections patronali" they began a lasting rivalità that today it expresses still him in a fate of constructive antagonism among the committees organizers of the parties of St. Sebastiano and St. Paul.
Thin al17121a the Madonna's party Odigitria developed him in a period that oscillated between the martedi¬ of Easter and the Sunday in Albis, really in 1712 the date of the party had been being deferred for Tuesday of Easter allO August.
The deferment of the date happened not without contrasts, and it was due to climatic motives, but above all to motives for economic and social nature. The select date fell, in fact, in a period in which more intense it was hardly the commerce of the wheat picked and more frequent they were the fairs and the commercial exchanges for which the devoted believers were able better to contribute to the result of the party with their offers. Tanta¨ that the deferment of the celebrations of the Saints patrons from the winter to the summer it was a phenomenon common to many centers of the Sicilia5.
The move of the date of the party coincided with the fair that had been held since 7 to August 22 for the party of the assumed one, managed by the Observant Smaller Fathers.
Since the Sansebastianesis wanted fierce tener from the 6 al12 August they were set in a relationship of strong competitiveness and contrast with the Observant Smaller Fathers. The contrasts were soothed and resolved in 1714 by the vicar Mr. Pietro Masuzzo through an indemnification, of which the entità is not known, that the Sansebastianesis owed to the Observant Smaller Fathers.
Always for the date of the fair both the Sansebastianesis that the Observant Smaller Fathers entered conflict with the near Buccheri where on August 10 was celebrated the party of S. Vito with relative fair. Over that from this important fair, other characteristic aspect of the party was constituted by the institution (1759) of an income in nature for a husband girl.
This custom in more recent epoch was assumed by the traditional one "cummitu" (banquet), this from the use of "to dress" from "Madonnuzza" a giovi¬netta from 14 years in on, of a little wealthy family. A procession during the hours antimeridiane, picked up for the streets of the country, plentiful gifts in nature: bread of various forms, ricotta, cheese, sweets etc., then during the afternoon hours on the plaza, behind the Town hall, on a stage richly decorated with flowers and fruit, it came
what the clergy and confratri disdained to intervene to a crazy procession, but they were you forced at the Bishops as to popular and ancient party, to which not him potea not him dovea to set obstacles."
This unusual celebration constituted, therefore, a festive occasion in which the comunità freed him from the rigid usual social schemes and allowed one "temporary" libertà and liceità of customs.
The party for excellence period for the celebration of sacred rites, nevertheless really the opposition of the time of the party to the normal time that participates some sacroprofano.
The Church però didn't succeed in eliminating the permanence of these ancient pagan rituals (masks, fires, etc.) cosicché in the first years of the XIX century, an ordinance Bishops the, riportò the Madonna's celebration Odigitria to Sunday "in albis" and it reserves the date of the l Or August to the celebrations in honor of St. Sebastiano Martire, that gia was anciently revered on January 20, anniversary of Your martyrdom remembered in the Mass and in the Ufficiatura from the whole Catholic Church.
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