Naples ’44

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Guardia Sanframondi

Guardia Sanframondi
Gianfranco Vitolo from Sarno (Sa), Italia · CC BY 2.0

Background

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.

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In Naples ’44

The town of a revived, medieval-style flagellant procession, recounted to Lewis by a colleague as one of a run of extreme feast-day spectacles in the Beneventano.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. June 27 1944
    A 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.

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