Cagliari thanked Sant'Efisio for the 368th time : yesterday the first part of the celebration ( HERE the story of the day ).
Paying homage to the martyr, two thousand five hundred devotees on foot wearing traditional clothes, 87 cultural and folklore associations, 200 "Campidanese knights", the escort of Efis Gloriosu, present with 36 associations, 56 militiamen on horseback, and 5 groups of musicians of launeddas and sulitus, for a total of around 80 instrumentalists, and then the 18 tracas, the large carts pulled by a yoke of oxen which evoke the journey of the devotees of Campidano and Sulcis towards the place of martyrdom.
After the night in the parish church of Santa Vittoria in Sarroch, today Videolina followed the Saint with its cameras to Villa San Pietro : in procession he was taken to the Fadda house where the yoke of the oxen was restored and the Saint's clothes ironed, while Holy Mass was celebrated in the Parish. The Saint's arrival in Pula was followed live from 11.30am. Studio commentary by Ambra Pintore with Giorgio Pellegrini, art historian, in connection with Mariangela Lampis.
At 6pm then the departure towards the Nora coast, while an hour later a mass is scheduled in the church of Sant'Efisio.
Tomorrow is also an important day: the highlight in the late afternoon with the procession along the route that leads to the excavations of Nora with the return from the beach. Then another procession towards the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Pula.
Saturday , however, is the day of returning home . At 7.30 the return pilgrimage begins towards Villa San Pietro, Sarroch, Villa d'Orri, Su Loi, Maddalena Spiaggia. In Giorgino there will be a change of the Saint's chariot and clothes, from the country clothes to the party clothes with which he left on Wednesday 1 May. Then the last stage with the procession returning from Villa Ballero to Giorgino towards Cagliari. The arrival in the city is expected during the night with the simulacrum returning to its place in the small church of Stampace. Then blessing and solemn reading of the dissolution of the vow by the president of the Archconfraternity.
(Unioneonline)
