Friday, August 22, at 17.30, near the homonymous small church tucked around the Village, will host the traditional Feast of St. Emidio.
The church is there some sort "... in 1781 at the burial in that location of the bodies of those who remain victims of the earthquake of June 3, both in the cathedral in the city. Each year anniversary so mournful disasters used to be a procession of penance and suffrage in that church, but the ceremony was abandoned after the coming of the Italian Government, and went into disuse with the feast of St. Emidio on parade, and the Company, who was standing (Sac. Buroni Gotthard "The Diocese of Cagli - Printing Bramante - Urban - 1943). 
Maria Paradisi, guardian of the church
The tradition that this event would then be celebrated on June 3.
Currently however, the date of this event changes from year to year: this year was set for Aug. 22. Instead, the day the Church celebrates the Holy One is August 5.
In the afternoon of Friday next, then, at 17.30 Mass will be celebrated.
refreshments will follow the traditional sober.
Currently however, the date of this event changes from year to year: this year was set for Aug. 22. Instead, the day the Church celebrates the Holy One is August 5.
In the afternoon of Friday next, then, at 17.30 Mass will be celebrated.
refreshments will follow the traditional sober.
News Sant'Emidio
Emidio was born in the year 273, from a noble family in Trier, a town in north-west of 'present Germany, the limits of the Roman Empire. At age 27, he was a pagan family, being in contact with his peers Christians, approached the true faith to be baptized. For God's will he left for Italy with three friends, Euplius, Valentino and Germano, who arrived in Milan was a very important meeting with Bishop S. Maternal and order priest instructed him properly. He moved to Rome, there lived an apostolic spirit, combining amazing wonders. He was received by Pope St. Marcellino, who thought fit to assume the responsibilities of bishops, consecrated him bishop can apply it towards Ascoli, where he lived a community that was burning to have a pastor. Ascoli, which was destroyed by Pompey Strabo Pompey the Great and rebuilt by his son, was an important city located along the consular road Salaria, that united to Rome and the Adriatic Sea. Counted more than eighty thousand inhabitants, and it was a very important military and commercial center. Emidio enthusiastically welcomed the pope's wishes and went to Ascoli together with his friends. Along the way, was informed that there was an awakening of persecution against Christians, and then there were the best conditions to carry out its mission. He then directed towards the nearby Abruzzo, converted to the faith of the city and other nearby Pitino.
Ristabilitasi calm Ascoli went there and was greeted with great joy by the martyred Christians. The young man began Emidio, then, his pastoral work with great fervor: he preached, taught, comforted the suffering, converted and baptized, also reaching neighboring towns, also reached Fermo, where together with a pre-existing communities of Christians, was opened to worship the true God, a pagan temple. After just three years of intense and fruitful work in it, wonders, in 303, returned to Ascoli, when it had converted many pagans to the Faith and, among these also Polisi, the daughter of the Prefect of the city was captured by the persecutors, sentenced to death and beheaded at the place where today stands the temple of "St. Emidio Red. "
fell to the ground in a pool of blood, the martyr - traditionally - picked up his head, stood up, putting himself out to go to the 'Oratory of caves, where the faithful gathered for the sacred duties, it settled here for the eternal repose. Mani pitiful then composed in a rude tomb cut into the tufa. The Ascoli, then exhumed and brought him in the crypt of the Cathedral, where he is especially revered as a protector against the scourge of the earthquake. This follows from the fact that " He, in his own lifetime, had the power to order from Heaven, in his will, the earthquake which, when entered into a city, as Pitino in Abruzzo, or in Ascoli, the earthquake broke out suddenly collapsed and had temples and statues of the gods ... but not the houses! and even today, they, the Holy One shall take them into his protection " (Letter From the Past. "O Beate Emigdio" of Bishop Ambrose Squintani)
Emidio was born in the year 273, from a noble family in Trier, a town in north-west of 'present Germany, the limits of the Roman Empire. At age 27, he was a pagan family, being in contact with his peers Christians, approached the true faith to be baptized. For God's will he left for Italy with three friends, Euplius, Valentino and Germano, who arrived in Milan was a very important meeting with Bishop S. Maternal and order priest instructed him properly. He moved to Rome, there lived an apostolic spirit, combining amazing wonders. He was received by Pope St. Marcellino, who thought fit to assume the responsibilities of bishops, consecrated him bishop can apply it towards Ascoli, where he lived a community that was burning to have a pastor. Ascoli, which was destroyed by Pompey Strabo Pompey the Great and rebuilt by his son, was an important city located along the consular road Salaria, that united to Rome and the Adriatic Sea. Counted more than eighty thousand inhabitants, and it was a very important military and commercial center. Emidio enthusiastically welcomed the pope's wishes and went to Ascoli together with his friends. Along the way, was informed that there was an awakening of persecution against Christians, and then there were the best conditions to carry out its mission. He then directed towards the nearby Abruzzo, converted to the faith of the city and other nearby Pitino.
Ristabilitasi calm Ascoli went there and was greeted with great joy by the martyred Christians. The young man began Emidio, then, his pastoral work with great fervor: he preached, taught, comforted the suffering, converted and baptized, also reaching neighboring towns, also reached Fermo, where together with a pre-existing communities of Christians, was opened to worship the true God, a pagan temple. After just three years of intense and fruitful work in it, wonders, in 303, returned to Ascoli, when it had converted many pagans to the Faith and, among these also Polisi, the daughter of the Prefect of the city was captured by the persecutors, sentenced to death and beheaded at the place where today stands the temple of "St. Emidio Red. "
fell to the ground in a pool of blood, the martyr - traditionally - picked up his head, stood up, putting himself out to go to the 'Oratory of caves, where the faithful gathered for the sacred duties, it settled here for the eternal repose. Mani pitiful then composed in a rude tomb cut into the tufa. The Ascoli, then exhumed and brought him in the crypt of the Cathedral, where he is especially revered as a protector against the scourge of the earthquake. This follows from the fact that " He, in his own lifetime, had the power to order from Heaven, in his will, the earthquake which, when entered into a city, as Pitino in Abruzzo, or in Ascoli, the earthquake broke out suddenly collapsed and had temples and statues of the gods ... but not the houses! and even today, they, the Holy One shall take them into his protection " (Letter From the Past. "O Beate Emigdio" of Bishop Ambrose Squintani)
