Pani Pulitu of the Supper of St. Joseph
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Pani Pulitu of the Supper of St. Joseph
On the occasion of the Feast of St. Joseph in Santa Croce Camerina l'main element of the table is the Bread of St. Joseph, also called "pani pulitu", of different and particular symbolic shapes, worked and decorated by skilled and expert hands
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Technical sheet prepared by: Region of Sicily - Department of cultural heritage and Sicilian identity - CRicd: Regional center for inventory, cataloging and documentation and Sicilian regional film library
Intangible Heritage Register
Prog .: 114
Well: Pani Pulitu of the Supper of San Giuseppe
Book: REI - Book of celebrations
Approval date: 19-05-2008
Category: Votive bread
Province: Ragusa - Municipality: Santa Croce Camerina
Local denomination
Pulitu ri San Giuseppi breads
Chronological News
The preparation of the Pulitu breads is linked to the tradition of the Dinners of San Giuseppe rdates back to 1832, when Baron Guglielmo Vitale, after his death, left the income of three vineyards to the Mother Church to solemnize the feast of the Saint, protector of the municipality. On this occasion, for the first time large tables were set by the faithful.
Recurrence: Annual - Date: March 19th
Occasion: Feast of St. Joseph
Function: Devotional / Patronal
Actors: Devoted to the Saint, mainly women, who have dissolved a vow or received a grace.
Description
Il Pulitu breads di San Giuseppe represents the main element of the Dinners of San Giuseppe; it is a ritual bread, prepared with durum wheat flour, baked at home in brick ovens, characterized by different and particular symbolic forms, and precisely for this reason worked and decorated by skilled and expert hands.
These loaves adorn the altar that is prepared between the evening of the 17th and the day of the 18th in the homes of the devotees who have dissolved a vow or received a grace from St. Joseph. The traditional ritual forms are: to varva, the beard of St. Joseph representing the face of the Saint, u vastuni (the stick) in bloom that recalls the royalty of the Saint, his initials S and G, the Holy Family, to hope (the sphere) or the monstrance, a little dog, a cockerel, pears, a bunch of grapes.
Il Pulitu breads it is eaten together with the rest of the food on the 19th after the arrival of the "Saints", Jesus, Saint Joseph and Mary, personified by 3 poor people, chosen by the family who prepared the Supper in honor of the Saint from among the neediest people in the country.
REFERENCES
Giallombardo, Fatima. Feast of St. Joseph in Sicily, flight. 1. Archive of Sicilian popular traditions, 5. Palermo: Folkstudio, 1981.
Giallombardo, Fatima. 2003. The table the altar the street. Food scenarios in Sicily. Palermo: Sellerio Publisher.
Pitre, Giuseppe. Patronal festivals in Sicily. Library of Sicilian Popular Traditions, 11. Sala Bolognese: Forni Editore, 1979.
Pitre, Giuseppe. Sicilian folk shows and festivals. Library of Sicilian Popular Traditions, 12. Bologna: Forni Editore, 1980.
Bird, Antoninus. 1976. Breads and sweets of Sicily. Palermo: Sellerio.
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