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title: SAINT GENNARO

subject date: 2003-01-27

caption: SAINT JANUARY. A depiction of the Saint in ecclesiastical robes. In his hands, he holds a pastoral staff and a book containing the ampoules that collect the blood that is still the subject of the miracle today. In 305, during the Diocletianic persecution, Januarius, bishop of Benevento, was beheaded near the sulphur mines of Pozzuoli. A woman collected his blood in two ampoules, but these were never found. A century later, in 431, during the translation of the Saint's relics from Pozzuoli to Naples, another woman presented the two ampoules, claiming they contained the martyr's coagulated blood. As if to prove the woman's sincerity, the blood suddenly liquefied before the eyes of the bishop and the crowd gathered to witness the translation ceremony. Since then, the miracle has been repeated every year on one of the dates associated with the saint: the eve of the first Sunday in May (the date of the translation), December 16th (the anniversary of the 1631 eruption of Vesuvius, during which the Neapolitans invoked the saint for protection), and September 19th (the date of his martyrdom). The phenomenon is also repeated in the porous stone, soaked in his blood, in the small church of Pozzuoli. San Gennaro is the protector of goldsmiths and blood donors and is also the patron saint of Benevento, Sassari, and Torre del Greco. Chromolithograph, Italy, 1900.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 31362

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Novecento

licence: RM

subject century: IV

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 14010

file name: FSNgilardi_31362.jpg

keywords

San GennaroSantinobloodlittle imagemiracleNaplespatronVesuviusSantodevotional imageSantinopastoralEarly ChristianEucharistreligionCatholicismChristianitycult of saints