statue of the Madonna della Bruna that is placed on the chariot 's Day Maria Santissima della Bruna ---- --------------------------- July 2, 2009
Monsignor Franco Conese and Archbishop Salvatore Ligorio , archbishop of Matera- Irsina , holding the little boy.
the secular party of the Madonna della Bruna, the patron saint of Matera, begins with the procession of the Shepherds "with which the old neighborhoods wake up at dawn to greet the framework of the Virgin, whose passage is announced by the Pops fireworks. Meanwhile, the knights escort wagon procession, gather along the streets and in the "neighborhoods".
As tradition dictates, on the morning of July 2 the statue of Maria SS is brought into the church Piccianello , only to be carried in procession around the chariot in the afternoon along the main streets filled with people, until you reach the Duomo square in the evening where they carry out the "three circles" symbol of taking possession of the city by the SS . patron. The statue, accompanied the Archbishop's Curia will be placed in the Cathedral.
The wagon is surrounded by the "knights" on horseback decked with paper flowers and velvets, the charioteer urging the mules to the square a few hundred meters, to return to the crowd there radunatasi the symbol of the party. With the same old ritual and then the soul of the people is enhanced by confusing the sacred and the profane and the general astonishment, in a blaze of mass, the result of the cart a craft of months, is attacked and destroyed (it will be designed and rebuilt the following year).
The festival ends late in the evening in the din of a competition of fireworks pirotecniciche create a unique setting on the heritage of the old quarters of the Stones' Unesco.
chariot 2009 edition: The Chairman of the Committee organizer of the festival, Franco Palumbo , with the filmmaker the wagon, Mr. . Pentasuglia . are even three legends that are told about this festival in Matera.
One of them tells of a girl unknown, appeared to a worker of the earth to return to the city of Matera. The girl asked the man a good ride on his wagon and he, after having accompanied to the gates of the city, near the church of Piccianello , saw transformed into a statue. The Virgin then greeted the doubting farmer whispered these words: "So, in a chariot decorated, I enter every year in my city." A second
legend on because of the destruction of the chariot, said instead of a probable attack by the Saracens. Matera I, to avoid the danger that the icons of their deep devotion and reverence to fall into the hands of the attackers, destroying their wagon to the first, avoiding the sack.
The third legend, instead of the Count Tramontano, lord of Matera, has promised to citizenship Matera everything necessary for the conduct of the festival in honor of the patron saint, even a new car every year. The Matera to test the pain endured tyrant, assaulted the chariot forcing the Count to keep his promise.
One of them tells of a girl unknown, appeared to a worker of the earth to return to the city of Matera. The girl asked the man a good ride on his wagon and he, after having accompanied to the gates of the city, near the church of Piccianello , saw transformed into a statue. The Virgin then greeted the doubting farmer whispered these words: "So, in a chariot decorated, I enter every year in my city." A second
legend on because of the destruction of the chariot, said instead of a probable attack by the Saracens. Matera I, to avoid the danger that the icons of their deep devotion and reverence to fall into the hands of the attackers, destroying their wagon to the first, avoiding the sack.
The third legend, instead of the Count Tramontano, lord of Matera, has promised to citizenship Matera everything necessary for the conduct of the festival in honor of the patron saint, even a new car every year. The Matera to test the pain endured tyrant, assaulted the chariot forcing the Count to keep his promise.
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