Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Monday - Anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers!

I know all of you out there know that the Easter Monday, 1282, is the anniversary of the Sicilian Vespers when the Sicilians, with the help of the Aragonese, threw off the yoke of their Angevin oppressors. Let's all celebrate!!!! Easter Monday is a Sicilian tradition wherein the Sicilians gathered at the church of Santo Spirito, which in the Middle Ages used to be outside the walls of the capital city of Palermo. The Sicilians would gather in the piazza in front of the church at Vespers time to finish their celebration of Easter.

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