花样年华 ....
-- selling candles to offer as sign of devotion to Agate --
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...this is a short-long report I did on the city of Catania (Sicily) in occasion of the feast of its patron saint Agatha, which took place on the 5 February (2014), when the Sicilian city is dressed up to feast, with a scent of orange blossom and mandarins, and its citizens show that they possess an extraordinary love and bond with the young martyr saint.
The religious sicilian feast of Saint Agatha is the most important feast of Catania, it takes place annually from 3 to 5 February (this dates commemorates the martyrdom of the young Saint), and on 17 August too (this date celebrates the return to Catania of her remains, after these had been transferred to Constantinople by the Byzantine general Maniaces as war booty, and there remained for 86 years).
花样年华 ....
-- selling candles to offer as sign of devotion to Agate --
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...this is a short-long report I did on the city of Catania (Sicily) in occasion of the feast of its patron saint Agatha, which took place on the 5 February (2014), when the Sicilian city is dressed up to feast, with a scent of orange blossom and mandarins, and its citizens show that they possess an extraordinary love and bond with the young martyr saint.
The religious sicilian feast of Saint Agatha is the most important feast of Catania, it takes place annually from 3 to 5 February (this dates commemorates the martyrdom of the young Saint), and on 17 August too (this date celebrates the return to Catania of her remains, after these had been transferred to Constantinople by the Byzantine general Maniaces as war booty, and there remained for 86 years).