Messina, the link between the people of Ganzirri and the patron saint San Nicola is renewed

John

By John

Sounds, shapes and colors of a party that combines maritime tradition and devotion, telling a symbolism that is lost in the mists of time. In Ganzirri the anniversary of the patron San Nicola Vescovo is not a simple party, but the confirmation of a link with the territory that sea people renews, with unchanged fervor. Emotions that chase each other among the devotees of all ages: from the bearers of the imposing simulacrum, to families, from the elderly of the place custodians of timeless memories to the young and very young people who approach the religious tradition as an important cultural element for the knowledge of the territory. Every year on 10 August a prodigy is renewed in Ganzirri who in the long procession from the church to the pier, passing through alleys and alleys decorated with boats, nets, flowers and shells, tells a cross -section of life of the fishermen, linked to San Nicola. Many stops during the long procession led by Father Antonello Angemi, marked by songs and prayers, to the cry of “Surviva Santa Nicola”; The participation of the Confraternities (of San Nicola and the Madonna della Montagna), the institutions, the parish groups. Then the departure from the pier for the traditional tour of the saint aboard the feluche that are blessed as well as the children, a moment particularly felt by the fishermen and their families. A long afternoon, a long journey of faith and devotion (which RTP will tell in a special broadcast in the next few days), sealed by the suggestive show of the fireworks on the lake.