San Pier Niceto is preparing to live the Holy Week, the exhibition “The days of the angels” inaugurated

The community of San Pier Niceto comes into the heart of Holy Weekwith the special presence of the auxiliary bishop Monsignor Cesare Di Pietro, who reached the country on the occasion of the inauguration of the photographic exhibition of Antonio Spadaro, entitled “The days of the angels”. Before the inauguration, a conference on the ancient tradition took place, coordinated by Antonina Amabile. “Your traditions have roots in the distant centuries – said Monsignor Cesare Di Pietro -. I am happy to find that in San Pier Niceto community and Church walk together. We contemplate these little angels and make sure that they are a wonderful spiritual reality”. The Spadaro exhibition is a journey made of deep images, from the oldest to the most recent, which immortalize one of the traditions par excellence of the town of San Pier Niceto. The classics “Angioletti”, who accompany the Crucifix every Tuesday and Friday in procession every Tuesday and Friday. These are boys and girls dressed with clothes covered with gold jewelry, an expression of timeless devotion. Families, parents and faithful decide, in fact, for “vote”, to dress a boy or a little girl from angel, Angiolone or Monachella (the little angels are usually 3 or 4 years old, while the angiolons are older, the nuns are girls instead). The exhibition was organized by the Cultural, Recreational and Sports Association Sampietrese, led by President Giambattista certain and by the vice -president Pino Chillemi. It will be open every day, until April 19, from 17 to 20, at the headquarters of the “Sacra Famiglia” Institute of San Pier Niceto. The conference also took part in the parish priest of San Pier Niceto, Monsignor Francesco De Domenico, the mayor Domenico Nastasi, the author of the exhibition, the engineer Antonio Spadaro, the rector of the Filippese Popular University, Pino Privitera, the publisher Carlo Morrone, the creator Antonio Spadaro and the representatives of the Sampietrese association. “Holy Week is the one in which popular religiosity is expressed by those who are grateful to the Crucifix, who listens to our invocations and never leaves us alone,” said Father Francesco.