Nothing Dampens Gubbio’s “Ceri Passione”
I’ve been told by more than one that you can’t truly feel the passione for the Ceri unless you join in carrying one of the three mammoth pyramidical structures, called “candlesticks.” Said to represent those candles carried solemnly in Gubbio patron saint Bishop Ubaldo’s funeral procession mid – 12th c, the wooden Ceri – phallic…