Tag: custonaci
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Old Fashioned Olive Press In Sicily
At last year’s Presepe Vivente (Living Nativity scene) in Custonaci, Sicily, they presented an old fashioned olive press. For this antique method, ripe olives were placed in the round, stone trough, the horse was attached to the wooden beam, and when he walked in a circle, he pulled the round, upright stone press that crushed…
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Celebrating the Bounty in Custonaci
The town of Custonaci recently finished celebrating their patroness, the Madonna di Custonaci (pictured), which you can read more about at https://experiencesicily.com/2015/08/26/erice-and-custonacis-mother-goddess/. Yesterday, the citizens of the town launched the “Odorie Sapori di Sicilia” festival (the smells and tastes of Sicily), a food festival featuring the bounty of the summer season, which runs through September…
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Basket Weaving
Men making baskets and other goods from cane at the ethnographic museum in Custonaci during a live nativity presentation. Thank you Experience Sicily’s Evelina Buttitta for this photo.
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Here, She will Stay
Since last Sunday, the town of Custonaci in Trapani Province has been celebrating their venerated Madonna. The 10-day celebration concludes on Wednesday, August 31, when devotees process the portrait of Maria SS. di Custonaci through the City of Marble’s streets. Legend is, that in the early 15th century, a painting of the Virgin and Child…
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Flower from Stones
Marble pavement design of the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Custonaci, in Custonaci, Trapani, a capital of marble quarrying in Italy
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She was Dark and Beautiful
This morning, a wish of mine was granted when we stopped in the town of Custonaci (Trapani Province) to visit the Sanctuary of Maria SS. di Custonaci. I wrote extensively about this Madonna–a Black Madonna–in August. You can read that post here. True to what many scholars who have studied the folklore of the Black…
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Erice and Custonaci’s Mother Goddess
This week of Ferragosto in Erice, they are venerating their patron saint, the Madonna di Custonaci (pictured), with their annual week-long Festa della Madonna. It’s important to know that Ferragosto is another name for The Assumption, the feast celebrating when the Virgin Mother ascended to Heaven. In other words, there are feasts for the Madonna…