san rita

Today is Saint Rita's Day, la festa della San Rita.

Saint Rita worked miracles, especially for the blind. The people pray to her by buying roses and holding them while they ask her for whatever miracle they desire. Today, Piazza Verde in Via Zamboni is full of flower markets and everywhere people are carrying bunches of roses. We visited a nearby church to discover a crowd of people lighting candles and waving their roses around in front of the saint, it was very festive!

Today, after five days of constant drizzle, there is sun. Perhaps San Rita has worked another miracle...