Full title The Virgin in PrayerArtist SassoferratoDate made 1640-50Source httpwww.nationalgalleryimages.co.ukContact picture.library@nationalgallery.co.ukCopyright The National Gallery London
Festival of Mary Most Holy Child

Sambuci. Festival of Mary Most Holy Child

The first weekend of September in Sambuci is a very special festival where the sacred and profane come together in an original way.

It is the feast of Mary Most Holy Little Girl who unites the religious celebration dedicated to the Little Maria at the end of summer festival that wants to greet the coming autumn.

There is a night procession in which the inhabitants illuminate the village with the lights of their torches or candles.

A weekend of games, songs and dances that ends with the bonfire in which the Pupazza or Signoraccia is burned, a large paper Mache lady that dances the whole evening and is then immolated in the fire.


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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