Città di Castello (PG) - The Donation of Wax is a tradition Historical - Religious very old dating back to the mid-eleventh Century, created to pay homage to San Florido, patron of the city. This year's celebration will take place on November 10 in Via Del Popolo at 17:00: you start with a meeting place for all the Confraternity, and then proceed with the merger of the candle and historical parade with people in costume to the ancient Cathedral Città di Castello.
The municipality decided that, on the anniversary of the death of the patron saint, all the Confraternity, the Pievanie, universities, churches, donassero according to their economic possibilities, "Pounds of Wax", used for melting of large candle to donate rectors to the canons of the Cathedral of Città di Castello, which would then placed next to the tomb of St. Florido. The Great Cero, on 13 November, lasted exactly 365 days, and then repeat every year, the Ceremony.
Over the centuries this event was, for various reasons, gradually lost, until in 1988 the Brotherhood of Good Counsel revisited obtaining the favorable opinion by the then Bishop Charles Urru. But at that time the event moves away from its purely religious and takes on a more folk.
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