| The
feasts bound to the most worshipped saints were really awaited
and beloved. |
| The
patron saint was and is St Canio, but the population felt
bounder to the Immaculate Conception. |
| This
kind of fondness was fed by the Arch-fraternity Of Madonna,
which was rival of that of St Canio: the committees suitably
created by those two fraternities competed to have the most
important preacher, the most harmonious music, the most spectacular
fireworks. |
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S.
Canio, patrono di Calitri |
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| St
Lucy and St Vitus were worshipped and taken in procession,
too; the feast of the former was organized by the Arch-fraternity
of St Canio, the feast of the latter by the Arch-fraternity
of the Immaculate. |
| The
culminating moment of the religious feast was the procession;
that of the civil feast, the music in the square and the fireworks. |
| At
dawn, some bangs would announce the beginning of the feasts. |
| Little
after the bandsmen, escorted by procurators (the organizers
of the party), who asked for money and corn door-to-door,
went for the village streets, playing the most fashionable
songs, escorted by lots of jolly kids. |
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