On 9 July the village of Pisoniano celebrates the beloved Santa Vittoria with great religious celebrations that unite the sacred and the profane.
The celebrations begin on the morning of the same day with the mass celebrated in honor of the Patron Saint and continue with the procession of the statue through the streets of the village.
Throughout the event there are stalls of handicrafts and local products.
Vittoria was a martyr whose humerus of her left arm is preserved in an artistic reliquary. The relic had been kept in the Abbey of Farfa, then brought to that of Subiaco and finally arrived in Pisoniano in 1326.
Vittoria was the daughter of noble Christian patricians who was denounced by her husband as a Christian in Monteleone in Sabina where she converted many people and saved the country from a dragon. Vittoria was then denounced a second time by her husband and was sentenced to death.
Santa Vittoria lived for a period in Pisoniano during the persecutions and for this reason a small church was dedicated to her which houses a portrait painted on a table found in 1014 by a farmer while plowing a field.
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