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Festa del Santissimo Salvatore a Pazzano (; 'Feast of the Holiest Saviour') is a three-day Catholic festival celebrated in Pazzano,
The current wooden statue used in the celebration was created in 1797 by Serrese sculptor Vincenzo Scrivo, discovered thanks to a restoration made in the 1980s. In 2006, another little restoration was made, and that year the feast began at the border with
Below, a piece of the litany, sung in
Image:Snato Salvatore celebrazione messa.jpg, Mass celebration
Image:Processione notturna.JPG, Night procession to the Chapel
Image:Santo alla Cappella.JPG, Statue taken to the chapel
Image:Santo Salvatore alla cappella di mattina.jpg, Salvatore at the chapel on Sunday morning
Image:Santo Salvatore in salita alla parrera.jpg, Santo Salvatore in Parrera Street
Image:Santo Salvatore alla cona.jpg, Salvatore at the calvary
Image:Santo Salvatore scende.jpg, Santo Salvatore in procession
Image:Santo per le vie del paese (Pazzano).JPG, Santo in the town streets
Image:Santo e fontana vecchia.jpg, Santo Salvatore at the Old Fountain
Image:Santo Salvatore verso la piazza.jpg, Santo Salvatore near IV Novembre Square
Image:Cunfrunti 1.JPG, ''Cunfrunti'' 1
Image:Cunfrunti 2.JPG, ''Cunfrunti'' 2
Image:Cunfrunti 3.JPG, ''Cunfrunti'' 3
Image:Cunfrunti 4.JPG, ''Cunfrunti'' 4
Image:Festa del Snato Salvatore.JPG
Image:Ritorno in chiesa.JPG, Getting back in the church
Image:I santi rientrano in chiesa (Pazzano).JPG,
Image:Santo nelle vinede.jpg, Statue in the alleys
Image:Santo vinede.jpg, Statue in the alleys 2
Image:Santo nelle vinede 2.jpg, Statue in the alleys 3
Image:U santu sarvaturi cu sapa e qual'annu.jpg, Statue in the alleys 4
Image:P1017583.JPG, Santo Salvatore at the calvary
Image:Festa Santo Salvatore (anni '50).jpg, Festa del Santo Salvatore in the 1950s
Image:Santo salvatore confronte e prete.jpg, Santo Salvatore feast of 1965
Image:Inizio santo salvatore.mov.OGG, Festa del Santo Salvatore begins (1994)
Image:Festa di sera.mov.OGG, Festa del Santo Salvatore - Night, going to the chapel (1994)
Image:Parrera.mov.OGG, Parrera street(2007)
Image:Confrunti 94.mov.OGG, ''Cunfrunti'' of Sunday morning (1994)
Image:Voto al santo.mov.OGG, Vow to the saint (1994)
Image:Ritorno in chiesa.ogv, Coming back to the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo (1994)
Image:Santo salvatore vinede.OGG, Procession among the alleys (2007)
Image:Vinede II bis.mov.OGG, Feast among the alleys (2007)
Festa del Santissimo Salvatore a Pazzano (; 'Feast of the Holiest Saviour') is a three-day Catholic festival celebrated in Pazzano, Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria (; ), commonly and officially referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the List of cities in Italy, largest city in Calabria as well as the seat of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. As ...
, Italy, every first weekend after 5 August.
It was originally the Byzantine celebration of the transfiguration of Christ
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (, , ) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers t ...
, still observed today by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches on 6 August.
It is divided in a civil and religious program.
Starting nine days before the feast, Novena
A novena (from , "nine") is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days or weeks. The nine days between the Feast of the Ascension and Pentecost, when the ...
(Calabrian: ) is celebrated, consisting of the adoration of the Saviour's statue and the recitation prayers for nine days. Novena is preceded by a litany.
History
The current wooden statue used in the celebration was created in 1797 by Serrese sculptor Vincenzo Scrivo, discovered thanks to a restoration made in the 1980s. In 2006, another little restoration was made, and that year the feast began at the border with Stilo
Stilo (Central-Southern Calabrian, Calabrian: ; ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is from Reggio Calabria, Reggio.
It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most bea ...
at Via Nazionale.
Pazzano-Australian emigrants to Sydney
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(Australia
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) in Narrawena suburb celebrate Santissimo Salvatore with a similar statue of John the Apostle
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.
Program
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Meaning
The religious procession relives three periods of Jesus' life. * The first is thetransfiguration of Christ
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. The Synoptic Gospels (, , ) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers t ...
upon Mount Tabor
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In the Hebrew Bi ...
, symbolized by the path from the little chapel to the Calvary going through Parrera Street, whose name is of Greek origin, meaning: "steep climb".
* The second is the ''cumprunta'' or ''cunfrunti'' ("confrontation") of Sunday morning, when Saint Joseph and Mary meet Jesus coming back from the temple to learn from the masters.
* The third it is the ''cumprunta'' of Sunday afternoon, when Jesus greets his parents and begins his predication, symbolized by a circuitous route through the streets and alleys of the town.
Litany
Litany played and sung at Pazzano
Below, a piece of the litany, sung in Latin
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and played by a band:
Works
The documentary '' Festa'', by Giuseppe Fiorenza, tells and describes the feast of 1992.Gallery
Videos
References
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