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October 19, 2014

A journey back to my Calabrian Byzantine roots

Townspeople of Mammola, Italy, carry the relics of San Nicodemo in a procession to the town’s former Basilian abbey.

ROME - Like many Roman Catholic immigrant families from southern Italy, I grew up with a devotion to the patron saint of my family’s ancestral town. Every Italian city, town and village has one. As a general rule, the smaller the village, the more obscure the saint.

Published in Travel