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santonofresi I celebrate the Holy Cross

STORY SANT'ONOFRIO

Originally the site was inhabited by Byzantine monks, who had a monastery here. We have found remains of earlier settlements in small quantities. The town takes its name from a hermit, the Sant'Onofrio Cao, who had taken this name in honor of Sant'Onofrio anchorite. It was called "the Cao" in the area because there is a slope, like a ravine, called in ancient times by Greek Chaos. Currently in the locality "Cao" is a well equipped with tanks, in which women, until a few years ago, went to wash.

cuisine of SANT'ONOFRIO

Being an agricultural area, the cuisine is based mainly on agricultural products, sometimes "poor", and the pig. The latter is processed according to the traditions, especially during a holiday that involves the whole family, to produce sausages of various kinds, most of which contained a large amount of chili. The traditional pasta are fileja, a fresh pasta dough without eggs and then spun on a wooden stick to make them take the shape of a helix. Is served with sauces of various kinds, mainly meat. Other typical components of the traditional cuisine are beans, sometimes flavored with wild herbs, and peppers. During the Christmas holidays, the day of the Immaculate Conception on, are made of fried sweet potato, called cururicchi. Christmas dinner is characterized by the presence of thirteen different courses, with permanent presence of dishes made with cod and vegetables.

LOCAL TRADITIONS

The costumes are primarily focused on local religious festivals. In addition to the traditional procession on the day of Easter, before the noon mass, has staged the Affruntata, a depiction of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. As usual in several municipalities in the area, addressed the shoulder is performed bringing statues of saints. In the '80s, after a heavy snowfall, a large branch of an olive tree broke. Found on the trunk, according to some, it appeared the face of Jesus Christ. In that area, a place of pilgrimage for some time, a chapel was built. Main party of the country, as well as that of the patron saint, is the feast of the Holy Cross held the last Sunday of September. The festival in honor of the Cross was celebrated for the first time in 335, during the "Crucem" Golgotha, and that of the 'Anastasis, that is the Resurrection. The dedication took place December 13. The term of "exaltation", which translates the greek hypsòsis, the party moved to the West, and from the seventh century, it wanted to commemorate the recovery of the precious relic made by the Emperor Heraclius in 628. Cross stolen fourteen years before by the Persian King Khosrow Parviz, during the conquest of the Holy City, the tracks were lost permanently in 1187, when he was taken to the Bishop of Bethlehem who had brought the Battle of Hattin.
Today's celebration takes on a meaning significantly higher than its legendary discovery by the pious mother of Emperor Constantine, Helena.
Even this year, this association santonofrese celebrated the ancient feast of the Exaltation of the Cross'. In an atmosphere of deep concentration and devotion, santonofresi were found Saturday, September 19 for the Mass in memory of the faithful departed and Sunday 20 for the solemn celebrations in the home renovated and decorated by the generous efforts of the committee. After the Mass and the procession, the traditional meal has collected about 300 people living in the widening of the homonymous association.