The Feast of San Antonio

San Antonio's Feast

San Antonio’s Feast

Couldn’t resist stepping out of hermitdom yesterday (I’ve locked myself up in my mountain home in Italy trying to finish off a book) to join the rest of the villagers in the local amenities hall for the traditional Feast of San Antonio. Before the feast the contadini bring their animals – dogs, cats, cows, sheep, horses – to the Church in the piazza to be blessed by the priest on behalf of the Patron Saint and Protector of Animals.

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