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== Saints and Brigands: is there an intervention by Saints Cosmas & Damion? == | |||
The one source I have does not attribute the saving of the maiden to the Saints, but it was on their feast day: | |||
=== The Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian & the fearsome brigand, Scannacornacchia === | |||
The southeastern Italian city of Alberobello celebrates the Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian on September 27 with games, dances, and feasts. In 1781 a roving band of brigands led by the fearsome and loathsome Nicola Spinosa, who was known as "Scannacornacchia" ("slayer of crows"), broke into one large gathering and commenced to dance. Eyeing a frightened, young lady, they approached her with ill intent. Alarmed, her mother jumped between them, genuflecting and weeping, and prayed to Saints Cosmas and Damian to protect her daughter. The Saints intervened and Scannacornacchia spared the girl. | |||
The following year, the first of two statues of the Saints commissioned by one Joseph Dominic Rinaldi, that of Saint Cosmas, arrived to the town. Immediately a long drought ended. | |||
Sources: | |||
* [https://www.alberobello.com/en/culture-and-traditions/patron-feast-brigands The feast of Saints Cosma and Damiano at the time of the brigands (alberobello.com)] | |||
** the mother's prayer to the Saints is not recorded on that site, but it's part of local legend (no links) and also makes sense, | |||
* [https://www.alberobello.com/en/culture-and-traditions/saints-cosmas-damian-alberobello The feast of the patron Saints Cosmas & Damian of Alberobello] | |||
* see also [https://www.wmf.org/project/murgia-dei-trulli Murgia dei Trulli | World Monuments Fund (wmf.org)] for the conical dwellings used in the region starting around 500 AD. (also:[[wikipedia:Trullo|Trullo - Wikipedia]]) | |||
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however, this page (same website) notes that the next year 1782, a statue of Saint Cosmas was commissioned: | |||
https://www.alberobello.com/en/culture-and-traditions/saints-cosmas-damian-alberobello | |||
which ended a long drought | |||
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