This morning, in the cathedral, the mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà will offer the Madonna della Consolazione the votive candle with which he “entrusts” the entire city and his anxieties to the heavenly patroness. A ritual that is renewed every year and that Riannoda that indissoluble thread that binds the people of Reggio to “his” Madonna binds.
Just as the President of the City Council Enzo Marra says: “In these days of ferment, the colors, perfumes and sensations that our city returns are those of a large community that through devotion to the Madonna della Consolazione, is combined in prayer and meets in the most authentic joy of sharing moments of celebration and light -heartedness”.
Marra adds: «Unique vibrations that the city transmits in the totality of its beauty, combining, to the expression of a faith that is manifested and handed down by families, from generation to generation, the warmth and passion of moments and traditions strongly linked to the history of Reggio Calabria. The mother of the consolation ask for comfort and charity, on the path of procession and in the cathedral, where it can be venerated in the three months in which it will be on the central altar of the Duomo, and then “reappeared”, in November in its hermitage “.
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