Easter traditions of my town.

In my town, during the period of Easter, there are a lot of traditions. One of these is a preparation of a special cake, that is named "Pastiera". There are more types of this. This cake is prepared during the Holy Week. Then there is a pizza with sausages, and bread with eggs. All this mustn't be eaten before Easter. Good Friday night there is a procession of Jesus' Passion ( Via Crucis ). It is very moving. Instead on Holy Saturday there is a procession of little angels, made of kids , it is very cute, because there are a lot of kids. After Easter, there is our Patron Saint, that is to say Madonna Incaldana. The feast-days lasts three days. On teh Feast day the picture of Madonna Incaldanais brought around the city, then it is put into the Basilica dedicated to her. All days there are many concerts, to celebrate her saint name and to give her honours.

Saint George.

He is the patron saint of England. Nothing of George’s life or deeds can be established, but legends about him as a warrior-saint, dating from the 6th century, became popular and increasingly extravagant. His rescuing a Libyan king’s daughter from a dragon and then slaying the monster in return for a promise by the king’s subjects to be baptized. George’s slaying of the dragon may be a Christian version of thelegend of Perseus, who was said to have rescued Andromeda from a sea monster near Lydda. George was known in England by at least the 8th century. Returning crusaders likely popularized his cult, but he was probably not recognized as England’s patron saint until after King Edward III made him the patron of the newly founded Order of the Garter. He was also adopted as protector of several other medieval powers, including Portugal, Genoa, and Venice. His feast is given a lesser status in the calendar of the Church of England; a holy day of obligation for English Roman Catholics until the late 18th century, it is now an optional memorial for local observance. His feast day is the 23rd April, the same day William Shakespeare's birthday. 

Floyd Spotting!

Last Thursday I read an extract about Pink Floyd, that explains the youth of the members. They attended the County High School for Boys. All the members met there. Waters and Roger played in the same team, Barett was already an artist. David Gilmour played with Gordon in the Cambridge group. That school was an inspiration for "The Wall", because teachers beat them, and they wrote in the song, those lines as "We don't need no education" and " No dark sarcasm in the classroom". In effect the bassist sang about sadistic teachers hurt the children anyway they could. I read this extract because I love Pink Floyd, and their psychedelic music. I listen them when I was 8, with my father, from that moment I continue to listen them.