IMAGO SANCTIS { 36 images } Created 18 Feb 2016
Imago Sanctis
by Federico Scoppa/CAPTA
During a medieval parade that saw the mummified body of Padre Pio traveling from le Puglie, south east Italy to Rome and then back, hundred of thousands lined to pay their respect to the Saint.
Iconography of the Saint: St. Pio was born in Pietrelcina, a small village about one hour and an half drive from Naples, the capital of Campania, and only twenty minutes from Benevento, hometown of Saint Gennaro. A war of worshippers.
In the streets of Pietrelcina everything is named after the Saint: the main road, the school, the convent. All the shops of this small agricultural town are dedicated to Padre Pio and sell representations of the Saint. Statues a few inch tall to human size, wooden masterpieces some of which perfumed other weather resistant, postcards, fridge magnets and so on. The town is covered in posters of its most famous citizen back home after about 100 years. The Saint is portrayed young, old, dead...
The body arrives with a two hours delay form Rome. And elderly woman, who claims to have met the Saint, covered her house of photos of her famous fellow citizen. She says she was healed by Padre Pio and now she waits with a large crowd to see him again. A small parade crosses the countryside and arrives at the village.
The display of the body begins, imago Sanctis.
by Federico Scoppa/CAPTA
During a medieval parade that saw the mummified body of Padre Pio traveling from le Puglie, south east Italy to Rome and then back, hundred of thousands lined to pay their respect to the Saint.
Iconography of the Saint: St. Pio was born in Pietrelcina, a small village about one hour and an half drive from Naples, the capital of Campania, and only twenty minutes from Benevento, hometown of Saint Gennaro. A war of worshippers.
In the streets of Pietrelcina everything is named after the Saint: the main road, the school, the convent. All the shops of this small agricultural town are dedicated to Padre Pio and sell representations of the Saint. Statues a few inch tall to human size, wooden masterpieces some of which perfumed other weather resistant, postcards, fridge magnets and so on. The town is covered in posters of its most famous citizen back home after about 100 years. The Saint is portrayed young, old, dead...
The body arrives with a two hours delay form Rome. And elderly woman, who claims to have met the Saint, covered her house of photos of her famous fellow citizen. She says she was healed by Padre Pio and now she waits with a large crowd to see him again. A small parade crosses the countryside and arrives at the village.
The display of the body begins, imago Sanctis.
