ON CALL THE SECOND EDITION OF THE MARIAN FESTIVAL

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The Marian Festival returns to Chiampo, becoming a certainty not only in the summer of events in Valle del Chiampo, but also in the world of the faithful.

A Festival organized by the Friars Minor of the Province of Northern Italy Sant’Antonio, with the Franciscan Alcantarine Sisters, the Secular Franciscan order, the Municipality of Chiampo, the Parish, the box culture association, the CIF and the AMA.

The idea, we recall, was born from the community of friars, with the aim of organizing a series of cultural and spiritual events to be repeated every year. The first edition of 2021 had as its main event the Dedication of the church to Blessed Claudius, a solemn moment in which His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins arrived in Chiampo.

“The Mariano festival reaches its second edition with a series of high-caliber events that we have the honor of hosting and which confirms how much the Franciscan complex is truly a pole of attraction for our city” – said Mayor Matteo Macilotti. “The festival also represents a moment of promotion of Chiampo and our Valley”

“The title we have given is ‘Way of Beauty, walking with Mary’ – Father Alfonso Cracco, Guardian and Rector of the Shrine tells us – which indicates the importance of living and walking with Mary. A Festival that acquires importance also due to the fact that we are in the middle of the synodal path, therefore close to the synod of bishops and ‘synod’ means ‘walking together’. This is the second Marian Festival of Chiampo which will run from 15 August to 15 September, from the Assumption to the Madonna Addolorata. In the first edition we consecrated the church with the patriarch of Jerusalem to Our Lady of Sorrows and to Blessed Claudius. There was great participation and great interest and for this reason we decided to continue. It is also remembered that this is the first anniversary of the consecration of the Church and the 60th anniversary of the Consecration of the Parish, which took place on 12 September 1962 “

Sister Fabiola, co-organizer of the Festival, talks to us about the events. “These are the three main celebration blocks,” she tells us. “The first is linked to the solemnity of Our Lady of the Assumption, the second to the Triduum of Blessed Claudius and the third to the solemnity of Our Lady of Sorrows. There is a long series of major events. We will start with a torchlight procession with a procession for Peace, given the times we are living in. Another important event is the blessing of two wheels: bicycles, motorcycles, wheelchairs and even the ‘two wheels’ of the disabled. Then there is a path linked to the Triduum that ends with an evening where the theme of Mary between art and theology will be treated with Don Antonio Scattolini and the next day the Tableaux Vivants who will represent the works of Caravaggio putting them on stage. And again… the Choir of the White Hands and the guest Giovanni Sciffoni, comedian who will present the show “Even the Saints have pimples”. A long journey full of other events without forgetting the 50th anniversary of the Menin Museum in Chiampo ”.

The 50th anniversary of the Franciscan Museum Padre Aurelio Menin in Chiampo

The soul of the Festival is also Valentina Carpanese of Manica Cultura, an association at the forefront of organizing the event. “This year – he tells us – we have the honor of celebrating some events related to the 50th anniversary of our Franciscan museum. It was the year 1972 when Father Aurelio

Menin had a big party inaugurating it, which is why we organized a series of events related to this prestigious anniversary ”.

“It will be a rich weekend that of 20 and 21 August – adds Cinzia Rossato of Manica Culture – a weekend dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Museum. On 20 August at 8.45 pm there will be an evening with the paleontologist Cristiano Dal Sasso dedicated to dinosaurs, therefore aimed at both adults and children, while on 21 August from 15 to 18.30 there will be the first real festival of the museum, a series of related initiatives experimental archeology and natural sciences with workshops and activities in the museum. I remember that there was a preview with the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Christian Greco, a guest in Chiampo on Saturday 16 July ”.

The Vicenza in Opera Festival in Chiampo – 14 September

The second Mariano Festival has also started a collaboration with the Vicenza in Lirica Festival, so much so that the billboard includes Luigi Boccherini’s “Stabat Mater” on 14 September at 8.45 pm in the Church of Beato Claudio, with the ensemble “L art of the bow, on the first violin the maestro Federico Guglielmo and with the soprano Silvia Frigato.

“A great event of national stature made in our capital” – declares the mayor Macilotti. “A beautiful and prestigious synergy with a Festival like ours, which aims to become more and more important”.

“It is the first year that we have established this important collaboration” declares Andrea Castello, artistic director of Vicenza in Lirica. “A cultural bridge and an event included in the Festival which begins on September 3rd and ends on October 22nd. Within the event we wanted to include the Chiampo concert bringing the excellence of music “

This is to invite the SV to the prestigious concert dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary that Maestro Jonh Kamitsuka will hold in Chiampo at the Church of Beato Claudio on May 20th.

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ON CALL THE SECOND EDITION OF THE MARIAN FESTIVAL