*Ø* Blogmanac Third weekend of July | La Festa del Redentore, Venice
Every year on the 3rd Saturday of July, Venice celebrates the festival of Christ Redemptor or the Redentore.
In 1575 after the people of Venice prayed for an end to a plague, the illness dropped away. The Doge Alvise Mocenigo had made a solemn vow to build, should the plague lift, a votive temple, “that generations to come will solemnly visit in perpetual memory of the received miracle”. On the third Sunday in July of the same year, His successor, Doge Sebastiano Venier, proclaimed the Serenissima Republic free from the plague and he fulfilled the vow to build a temple of thanksgiving to the Redeemer. The church was built on the Giudecca island and the foundation stone was laid on May 3, 1577. On July 21, 1578 an open-air altar with tabernacle was opened and in four days a bridge consisting of 80 galleys was laid across the Giudecca Canal.
To mark the event a boat bridge was built to take worshippers to the spot were the new church was being built. The church was designed by Andrea Palladio and completed in only 15 years.
To this day that event is commemorated by the city by building the boat bridge across the Giudecca Canal to take people to the church. In the evening people will take to their boats and spend the night watching a splendid firework display on the lagoon and will wait for the sun to rise.
Pilgrims walk from the city to Giudecca across the decks of boats while spectators gather on waterfront balconies. People eat sweet and sour sole with pine nuts and raisins, and deck boats and houses alike with flowers and party lights. Handel’s famous Water Music was written in 1771 for this spectacle, and it is played as fireworks are let off.
Thank you Almaniac Sylvia de Vanna for sending in much of this information
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Venice; the Giudecca, looking towards Fusina, by Turner
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*Ø* Blogmanac Third Saturday of July | Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, UK
The Tolpuddle Festival is held every year to commemorate the sacrifices made by the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm workers whose courage in standing up to their ruthless bosses is credited with the birth of the UK’s trade union movement.
Their struggle began in 1833 when, close to starvation and facing a wage cut for the third year in a row, a handful of farm workers led by George Loveless decided to start a ‘friendly society’ to protest against their meagre pay. Loveless’s landowner, James Frampton, employed a spy to infiltrate meetings of the newly-formed society. The informer took back to his master the information that the members had voted an oath of secrecy at the beginning of the meeting, an act that was illegal under an obscure 1797 law. Thus, on March 19, 1834, Loveless, his brother James and co-workers James Brine, Thomas and John Stanfield and James Hammett were sentenced to seven year’s transportation to the Australian penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Dieman’s Land [Tasmania], despite an 800,000-strong petition complaining about their unjust treatment.
In June 1835 the British Government offered the men conditional pardons which the men rejected out of hand, demanding free pardons because they had done nothing wrong. Nine months later their demands were met and they returned home the following year as heroes.
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Every year on the 3rd Saturday of July, Venice celebrates the festival of Christ Redemptor or the Redentore.
In 1575 after the people of Venice prayed for an end to a plague, the illness dropped away. The Doge Alvise Mocenigo had made a solemn vow to build, should the plague lift, a votive temple, “that generations to come will solemnly visit in perpetual memory of the received miracle”. On the third Sunday in July of the same year, His successor, Doge Sebastiano Venier, proclaimed the Serenissima Republic free from the plague and he fulfilled the vow to build a temple of thanksgiving to the Redeemer. The church was built on the Giudecca island and the foundation stone was laid on May 3, 1577. On July 21, 1578 an open-air altar with tabernacle was opened and in four days a bridge consisting of 80 galleys was laid across the Giudecca Canal.
To mark the event a boat bridge was built to take worshippers to the spot were the new church was being built. The church was designed by Andrea Palladio and completed in only 15 years.
To this day that event is commemorated by the city by building the boat bridge across the Giudecca Canal to take people to the church. In the evening people will take to their boats and spend the night watching a splendid firework display on the lagoon and will wait for the sun to rise.
Pilgrims walk from the city to Giudecca across the decks of boats while spectators gather on waterfront balconies. People eat sweet and sour sole with pine nuts and raisins, and deck boats and houses alike with flowers and party lights. Handel’s famous Water Music was written in 1771 for this spectacle, and it is played as fireworks are let off.
Thank you Almaniac Sylvia de Vanna for sending in much of this information
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Venice; the Giudecca, looking towards Fusina, by Turner
*Ø* Blogmanac Third Saturday of July | Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, UK
The Tolpuddle Festival is held every year to commemorate the sacrifices made by the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm workers whose courage in standing up to their ruthless bosses is credited with the birth of the UK’s trade union movement.
Their struggle began in 1833 when, close to starvation and facing a wage cut for the third year in a row, a handful of farm workers led by George Loveless decided to start a ‘friendly society’ to protest against their meagre pay. Loveless’s landowner, James Frampton, employed a spy to infiltrate meetings of the newly-formed society. The informer took back to his master the information that the members had voted an oath of secrecy at the beginning of the meeting, an act that was illegal under an obscure 1797 law. Thus, on March 19, 1834, Loveless, his brother James and co-workers James Brine, Thomas and John Stanfield and James Hammett were sentenced to seven year’s transportation to the Australian penal colonies of New South Wales and Van Dieman’s Land [Tasmania], despite an 800,000-strong petition complaining about their unjust treatment.
In June 1835 the British Government offered the men conditional pardons which the men rejected out of hand, demanding free pardons because they had done nothing wrong. Nine months later their demands were met and they returned home the following year as heroes.
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