It takes place in August since 1889 in honor of San Tommaso, San Antonio and San Rocco, whose statues are carried in procession through the town with robes richly adorned with gold jewelry
The "Festone" is the Great Feast of the Grottesi. Great not because it was the most important feast but because it was a bigger feast, which united several venerations together: at the beginning the Franciscan Saint Anthony of Padua (Lisbon c. 1195 - Padua 1231) and the layman Saint Roch of Montpellier (sec . read more
It takes place in August since 1889 in honor of San Tommaso, San Antonio and San Rocco, whose statues are carried in procession through the town with robes richly adorned with gold jewelry
The "Festone" is the Great Feast of the Grottesi. Great not because it was the most important feast but because it was a bigger feast, which united several venerations together: at the beginning the Franciscan Saint Anthony of Padua (Lisbon c. 1195 - Padua 1231) and the layman Saint Roch of Montpellier (sec . XIV) and much later, in 1992, the Dominican Saint Thomas Aquinas (Roccasecca 1224 - Fossanova 1274), patron saint of Grottaminarda.
Three saints who, apart from faith in Jesus Christ, had almost nothing in common.
Three cults that came to Grottaminarda in different eras. read less
