Gualdo Tadino

Flowering of Whitethorn, Festival of Blessed Angelo

January

According to tradition in the day of Blessed Angelo's death, January 15, 1324, while transporting the body from the hermitage to the Cathedral, along the path took place a great flowering of the hawthorn. Blessed Angel is the patron of Gualdo Tadino with St. Michael the Archangel.  On 15 January 1324, while the bells of the Abbey of St. Benedict played alone, Angelo was found dead in prayer. The passage of the corpse of Angelo, along the road that leads to the convent of St. Benedict, the hawthorn hedges and fields of flax miraculously began to flourish. Still today repeats the prodigious flowering of hawthorn hedges. On the night of January 14, the plants of hawthorn are covered with numerous shoots even though the low temperatures of winter.  This only happens along the route traveled by the coffin during the funeral of the Blessed, the hermitage of Capodacqua to the Basilica of St. Benedict.

Traditional program:
January 14
18 hours: in the Cathedral of St. Benedict - Solemn Vespers, in the presence of the municipal government, the mayor and the Gonfalonier of '"Authority Games Gates" after delivery of the oil for the sanctuary lamp burning in the chapel of the Blessed angel in the Cathedral. The oil is offered by the Administration and Authority Games Gates.
21 hours: from the Church of San Donato district to Hawthorn. Homage to the statue of the Blessed Angel - Blessing of the hawthorn flowers.
January 15
For the entire day solemn religious celebrations in the Parish Church of San Donato.