The Feast of San Antonio

San Antonio’s Feast

Couldn’t resist stepping out of hermitdom yesterday (I’ve locked myself up in my mountain home in Italy trying to finish off a book) to join the rest of the villagers in the local amenities hall for the traditional Feast of San Antonio. Before the feast the contadini bring their animals – dogs, cats, cows, sheep, horses – to the Church in the piazza to be blessed by the priest on behalf of the Patron Saint and Protector of Animals.