Four Day Festival In Sorrento To Honor Saint Anna
Santa Anna Sorrento Lingue shared with me the festival that celebrates their patron saint and the entire town of Sorrento will celebrate.
From Olga Stinga with SALA
"On July 26th Italians celebrate the Festivity of Sant’Anna (the Saint to whom our Institute is dedicated and that we take the name). The celebration for this saint will last 4 days, until Monday when there will be a huge festival in Marina Grande (the fishing village of Sorrento) and fireworks.
The Madonna, called Saint Anna,
protects pregnant women and on the 26th of July all the pregnant
women of the Sorrento Pensinsula travel to the fishing village of Marina
Grande and visit the church.
There is also a special event organized in the church: at 7 pm on the 26th of July the priest will bless some handkerchief's with holy water and he distributes them to all the pregnant women attending the celebration. It is a way to ask for the protection of this saint. Again, our Institute is dedicated to Sant’Anna, the imother of Maria (the mother of Jesus).
There is also a special event organized in the church: at 7 pm on the 26th of July the priest will bless some handkerchief's with holy water and he distributes them to all the pregnant women attending the celebration. It is a way to ask for the protection of this saint. Again, our Institute is dedicated to Sant’Anna, the imother of Maria (the mother of Jesus).
On Monday there will be a huge
procession by sea: the statue of the Madonna will be put on a boat and they’ll
drive her along the coast to bless the sea and the land. The boat will be
followed by hundreds of smaller boats to form a procession by sea."
