Bolsena’s Basilica di Santa Cristina: Two Prodigious Acts
Two atti prodigiosi – “prodigious acts” – are inextricably linked to Bolsena’s Basilica di Santa Cristina, named in of honor one of the town’s patron saints, Cristina. According to local legend, young Cristina was finally martyred after numerous grisly futile attempts, those scenes acted out throughout the town in tableaux annually by appassioned bolsenesi on the vigil and day…