"Blood that melts in silence: Saint Patricia in Naples between East and West" by Carlo Coppola
articolo di Carlo Coppola apparso su " In Città Giovinazzo " diretto da papas Antonio Calisi : " https://www.incittagiovinazzo.it/2026/08/29/il-sangue-che-si-scioglie-in-silenzio-santa-patrizia-a-napoli-tra-oriente-e-occidente/ "Naples is the city of bloods." So declared Jean-Jacques Bouchard in 1632, awestruck before the relics kept in the city's convents: Urbs sanguinum , the city of blood. Among all those vials, there is one that liquefies without fanfare, in the silence of a convent, amid the stuccoes of Giovan Battista d'Adamo and Luise Lago and the canvases of the great Luca Giordano . On Tuesday, 25 August 2026, the prodigy occurred once again: in the early hours, at San Gregorio Armeno, before the nuns and hundreds of the faithful who had been queuing since dawn, the blood liquefied in its silver reliquary, under the summer heat and a bright sun. Who is this woman who came from the sea? According to hagiographic tradition , she was a Byzantin...
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