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The Venetians defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto on St Justina's Day in 1571. It is a grand event in Venetian history, but I have to report that nothing happened to remind us of that in Venice today.
Bonnie
Bonnie Blackburn
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Oxford OX2 6EJ
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On 10/07/2012 09:55 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> 2) Justina of Padua (d. 304, supposedly).
> Later in the same century J. appears in the (now greatly restored) procession of female martyrs in Ravenna's basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. In this photograph by Genevra Kornbluth she's second from left:
> http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/ApNNorth5.jpg
Thank you for connecting the dots for me, John! I was in Padua
yesterday, eating dinner in a small nondescript restaurant, when I
noticed a great many people congregating outside. It turned out that I
was at the assembly point for a procession in honor of Justina. I don't
think that her church was there, just a small shrine, and the procession
went to the Basilica of St. Anthony. As an interloper, I watched the
procession but did not go to the basilica. The procession included
drumming, flag tossing, and what I think was a short reenactment of a
Passio-- some discussion and then a loud scream just outside my view.
(No photos, sorry; the camera was back in my room.) Can anyone on the
list tell me why many of the people taking part wore late-Renaissance
garb? Those who were so dressed, including someone who either was or was
dressed as a bishop walking under a canopy held by four youths, walked
ahead of those in normal clothes.
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