Saint / folklore
Parenti di San Gennaro
A clique of aged Neapolitan women held to be the blood descendants of San Gennaro.
In the book
Led in to take their places around the cathedral altar, they are credited with the power — and the duty — of browbeating their ancestor into performing the blood miracle.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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May 7 (i) 1944San Gennaro's blood liquefies, but slowly — considered a bad omen — after days of anxious public vigil that could have sparked unrest if it had failed.
aged women believed descended from the saint
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