Mary Stuart Masterson

Although no more rain in the early hours of the morning, the sky was dark and heavy air. Met by many people who went to visit St. Michael is punished for it in that church left to run without too much rain. The rain of the night and the weather still threatening had mollified the hearts of the population, to encourage more good ones in the Holy provisions, sought to bring him his place in the cathedral solemnly usual.
We saw very few priests in the street, but to make a lot of women dressed all in black and Capuchins. One of these was advancing only one and had a wild look. When we drew near, a ray of sunshine suddenly illuminated the inherent light of blood, while the large-scale and took his shadow on the ground formed a sort of cross! Behind that figure is strange prolungava misterioso, come una tenebrosa decorazione, lo spazio dalle grandi linee montuose. La visione sparve tosto, evocando in me il ricordo di quei monaci guerrieri che attraversarono il medio evo.Quando arrivammo alla chiesa dei Cappuccini, un uomo, ritto sulla gradinata, davanti alla porta maggiore, suonava il tamburo per chiamare i fedeli a pregare ancora San Michele sebbene fosse in castigo.
Il Santo era sopra l'altare, ma al buio; generalmente in questa stagione esso è in villeggiatura in una cappella della campagna circostante. Gli avevano tolto dalle spalle il bel mantello di velluto rosso e le ali d'oro, non impugnava più la spada sfolgorante; ma se ne stava lassù, mogio mogio, con le ali di cartone, un vecchio tabarro scozzese sul dorso e una semplice lancia in mano.
Nonostante ciò, San Michele è tenuto in grande venerazione a Caltanissetta poiché il popolo gli è riconoscente d'aver scacciata, un tempo, una pestilenza che minacciava d'entrare nella città per distruggerla Secondo la credenza popolare siciliana le epidemie sono mandate dall'estero, o sparse nelle città e nei villaggi da gente di mal animo. Fino a Palermo ci sono state delle sommosse in tempo d'epidemia, perché il municipio faceva gettare del cloruro di calce agli angoli delle vie per disinfettarle. Dicevano che il governo, considerato sempre come un nemico, seminava in quel modo la malattia. Around 1837, the same San Michele drove from Caltanissetta and cholera as a sign of gratitude he was a chapel, but when that was finished, they realized that they had a statue of the saint to place it within the niche that had been prepared.
The town was turned upside down, how? Some people, the most cunning of the country, they knew that in a house, the house Moncada, there was a guardian angel, who is unemployed, and what do they do? Take it, silent and quiet, the repainting, the stick on his shoulders a pair of golden wings, cover it with a nice robe and put his hand in a blazing sword, and you're a perfect San Michele. Since
over time had a little 'wasted, it was again painting and this time it was observed on the back of the Saint, one in which it was written the story of his transformation from guardian angel Saint Michael the Archangel, properly written, dated and signed by X. ... Alderman! ... San Michele
addition there is a much venerated Madonna. in Caltanissetta, Our Lady of the Angels, a special protector of beans. At certain times of the year, carried in procession through the streets and fields attached to the neck and hands and ears of the beans, for his protection to be extended, a little also to all other crops.
The shadow had fallen over all things, when we returned from the Capuchin church, greeted the engineer who was to accompany the day, after the nearby sulfur mines.
It 'rained all night and when we walk in the skies threatened more rain. We are soon in open country, on the side of a mountain of riddled with holes made by poor people who had permission to dig underground dwellings of the town hall by paying a rent of 15 pounds a year.
had paid dearly for the right to really dig a hole! Dens and also unsafe, because soon there remained buried under landslides, whole families. Despite the danger, some of these caves are still inhabited, and we heard through a sort of buzz out of quell'alveare human infant. The steep wooded around us are, but you can see in the distance a long line of barren mountains, crossed by ravines. On two twin summits as one can see two huge forts, Castrogiovanni, I'antica Enna, and Calascibetta.
's change the way a moment to visit the mud volcanoes.