Place of interest
The Cult of Saint Francis of Paola
He is called “u santu patri”, the holy father, and the city’s sailors and seafarers are devoted to him, giving him a sacrilegious attribution, capable of denying the hagiographic hierarchies of Christian and Catholic ritual.
Trapani
The place
He is called “u santu patri”, the holy father, and the city’s sailors and seafarers are devoted to him, giving him a sacrilegious attribution, capable of denying the hagiographic hierarchies of Christian and Catholic ritual.
How can a Saint Francis of Paola be called “santu padre” by sailors and seafarers? Could there be a deep, ancient, pagan origin underneath? Might the Trapani sailors, in that great church near the port, even have seen Poseidon there?
