Naples ’44

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Vico Freddo

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In Naples ’44

The lane holding the section’s ‘local shrine’, where the two women who clean for them go to light candles during the anxious May 1944 vigil over San Gennaro’s blood.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. May 7 (i) 1944
    San 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.

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