THE PARISH OF SAINT THOMAS APOSTLE IN TORCA, on the occasion of the Solemnity of SAINT PETER aCRAPOLLA, organizes for 29 JUNE 2022, at 6.00 am a PILGRIMAGE WITH DEPARTURE FROM THE PARISH CHURCH UNTIL THE CHAPEL OF SAN PIETRO A CRAPOLLA
7.00 AM EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION AT THE END OF THE CONVIVIALS.
Once and before the covid, from Marina del Cantone, a series of boats left at dawn to take pilgrims to Crapolla. Today, unfortunately, despite the fact that there are numerous tenant boats, no one goes to Crapolla. We of the Positanonews editorial team who wanted to follow this special pilgrimage by sea, did not find, even for a fee, any boat that maintained this tradition. Times change and we have experienced it on our skin, we just have to experience exciting moments of spirituality in the theatrical representation that gives us the:
INCOM REPERTORY
date: July 1950 duration: 00:04:00 color: b / n sound: mute movie code: RI0003702
photo Gaetano Starace
SAN PIETRO IN CRAPOLLA 29 JUNE. The traditional procession of boats with the ritual of the sacred representation staged by the fishermen of Torca in the images of a very rare documentary of the Istituto Luce of 1952/53
(from the book ‘SorrentoMovies, the cinema on the Amalfi Coast’ Ed. La Conchiglia 2012) from the post by Antonino De Angelis
From Gianluigi Persico’s post. June 29 and it is 7 in the morning: the sun looks out with its summer rays behind the Crapolla Tower, laps the coast, the mountain, the stone smoothed by the wind and salt. The celebration begins on St. Peter’s Day, today as yesterday: the pilgrimage on foot from the village of Torca following the old path, young and old, elderly with makeshift sticks, in a rite that is handed down unchanged, like an appointment to which you can miss it, away from wifi networks and technologies.
In this wonderful fjord of the Sorrento peninsula on the Gulf of Salerno, the legend tells of the arrival of the apostle Peter sailing under the coast towards Pozzuoli, the great port of Rome. All our land, in fact, remembers this “passage” in various places of worship and in toponymy, from the hills of San Pietro, to a tuff cross in via Bagnulo a Piano, to the church of San Pietro a Mele at the gates of Sorrento, up to Marina Grande.
Place of hermitage of Basilian monks fleeing during the iconoclastic period, caves and inaccessible and solitary places, it was here that around 1100 a Benedictine abbey was built, belonging to that of Montecassino.
It is towards the East that for centuries the monks’ morning prayers have been lapped by the same sun that entered the skylights of the apse of the old church with three naves, entirely frescoed, and of which some remains can be glimpsed, together with the sound of the sea surf.
Only in 1949 the generosity of families emigrated far to the Americas wanted to rebuild a small church dedicated to St. Peter, whose bell marks the passage of time, in a rite that says roots, belonging, identity … and, in the deepest, the desire to entrust himself to the Apostle who, amidst impulses and denials, at the end of everything managed to imitate his Master to the very end. And that perhaps, the glimpse of beauty of Crapolla and of our coast, left him the less bitter journey towards martyrdom!
San Pietro a Crapolla. Pilgrimage and party 2022 – Positanonews