Just-in-time sticky tape fix for a young drummer boy in brown and yellow medieval costume as members of his contrada or traditional town district gather in Viale Regina Margherita at Anagni, Lazio, Italy, before marching in an annual August pageant honouring the town’s patron saint, 3rd century AD bishop and martyr San Magno di Anagni (Saint Magnus of Anagni). The ancient hill town southeast of Rome was the summer residence of Roman emperors and medieval popes, and 13th and 14th century pontiffs Gregory IX and Boniface VIII were born there.
Anagni, Lazio, Italy: last minute adhesive tape repairs for this young drummer boy in brown and yellow medieval costume as members of his contrada or traditional town district gather in Viale Regina Margherita before their procession in an annual August pageant honouring the town’s patron saint, the 3rd century AD bishop and martyr San Magno di Anagni (Saint Magnus of Anagni). As Bishop of Trani, Magnus worked to spread Christianity in Anagni and its neighbouring towns. He is said to have fled from persecution but was executed after Roman soldiers found him hiding in a cave. He became Anagni’s patron saint after 1901, when his skeletal remains were buried in the crypt of the town’s cathedral, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunziata. Anagni, about 71 km (44 miles) southeast of Rome, is an ancient hill town in the historic region of Latium. It enjoyed an illustrious past as a summer residence of Roman emperors and medieval popes. Its Palace of the Popes hosted the papal court between the 11th and 14th centuries and the town was the birthplace of at least two 13th and 14th century pontiffs, Gregory IX and Boniface VIII. Contrade, defining administrative divisions or districts, were common in almost all medieval Italian cities and towns. Their aim was to unite residents to provide mutual support; heads of families pledged not to take up arms against neighbours and vowed to help each other in times of danger or need.
Size: 2161px × 3254px
Location: Anagni, Lazio, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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