Saint Sebastian's Day
5/17/2012
On January 20th is the feast in honor of the martyr killed by blows of arrows in the year 288, Italian saint of French origin and venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Christian Church.
It is also this year to Fossato the traditional appointment of Vico with the festivities in honor of the town's patron saint, San Sebastian. Often in the past, Sebastian was invoked as a protector against the plague, while today it is invoked against epidemics in general and along with St. Roch is the patron saint of the city police. As reported by Luigi Galassi in the publication "The story of fifty churches fossatana", we know that "... San Sebastian becomes patron of Fossato in the second half of the fifteenth century onwards ... as it is at this time that there is a bit 'wherever the worship of that saint, regarded by virtue of his wounds an effective protector from the plague, which occurs with wounds, and though the plague has spread in the territories of the mercenary forces that flow through them every time, i miss the link between medieval these militias and the plague that they leave behind and attach it to a punitive God's will, which occur - more willingly than to doctors through the intercession of the saint-considered on the most suitable, San Sebastian, in fact. not random fossatana the church of San Sebastiano, built half a millennium ago by the city - but in sizes that are not current ones - to protect the community from the plague, is still local. "
It is a tradition throughout the country to prepare the sweet typical of the party, the pancakes.