Saint / folklore
Guardia Sanframondi flagellant rite
Guardia Sanframondi is a town and comune in the Province of Benevento, in Campania region, in Italy. It is best known for its wine production, the wine festival Vinalia and for its Christian penitential rite held every seven years.
In the book
The seven-yearly penitential procession in honour of the Virgin, revived in 1944 — described to Lewis by a colleague: robes soaked with blood, and one banner-carrier nearly lynched after being publicly named a cuckold.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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June 27 1944A colleague describes a revived, medieval-style flagellant procession at Guardia Sanframondi; two more feast stories follow — Nola's Feast of the Lily disrupting army telephone lines, and a trip to Amalfi for the thrice-yearly 'manna' relic of St Andrew.
flagellant procession held every seven years in honour of the Virgin
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