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St. Gennaro
Prodigy or reality? Faith or reason? Science or religion? So many doubts are intersected in what as the most important event is attended for the Neapolitan community. The breakup of the blood of St. Gennaro, the patron of Naples, bishop of beheaded Benevento eight centuries ago. A big procession that waits for the liquefaction of the blood: a fact what it points out the positiveness of the following year.

The history of the prodigy.
It raced the 17 August of 1389 when a reporter annotates that there was a big procession for the miracle shown by Jesus Christ in the blood of St. Gennaro, preserved in a cruet, that had liquefied as if it had gushed out that same day from the body of the saint. The relic had been brought in procession to welcome a deriving embassy from Avignone. From the text it is drawn the impression that the phenomenon was verified then for the first time. From 1389 the cult of the relic of blood of St. Gennaro, preserved honorably near the cathedral in Naples, went intensifying each other: in the 1425 Loys de Rosa wrote that the miracle often happened, and in 1440 the archbishop Gaspare de Give reorganized the cult of St. Gennaro martyr with a special liturgical constitution that mentioned the miracle .

The miracle: when and where.
The blood of St. Gennaro is loosened a year twice: in the first week of May, on September 19 (and up to some years ago on December 16), renewing a prodigy of which scientists and men of faith of the whole world have been occupied (a prodigy that is also verified in the sanctuary of St. Gennaro to the Solfatara of Pozzuoli, where stains of blood are revived on a stone on which the saint had taken off) they wait for the liquefaction of the blood .


The procession .
Only from some year we can assist again instead to the procession of May, memory of the ancient procession of the Inghirlandati (Garlands their), celebration between the dearrest to the Neapolitans in which the bust of the saint best hand in head to the procession followed from the silver statues of the other compatronis and from to crowd of believers that departing from the Cathedral arrives to the church of Saint Chiara, where the miraculous liquefaction happens.


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