Sedilo

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Sedilo
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Sedilo (Italy)
Sedilo
Country Italy
region Sardinia
province Oristano  (OR)
Local name Sèdilo
Coordinates 40 ° 10 '  N , 8 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 10 '22 "  N , 8 ° 55' 8"  E
surface 68.88 km²
Residents 2,049 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 30 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 09076
prefix 0785
ISTAT number 095052
Popular name Sedilesi
Patron saint John the Baptist
Website Sedilo
Sedilo
Sedilo

Sedilo (possibly from Latin sedulus : hardworking) is a place in the north of the province of Oristano in Sardinia with 2049 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Sedilo is located 288  m slm and 10 km northeast of Ghilarza on the north bank of the Lago Omodeo reservoir , which was built in the 1920s and dams the Tirso .

The Ardia

Santuario di San Costantino during the Ardia (2006)

The place and the architecturally insignificant, architecturally insignificant pilgrimage church of Sant'Antine (Santuario di San Costantino), which was built in its present form only in 1789, four kilometers outside, are the scene of the S'Ardia (from Sa Guardia - the guard) every 6th and 7th July ), the most important of the island's equestrian festivals (next to the S'Ardia of Pozzomaggiore ). But it cannot be compared with the much larger Palio of Siena , which is about a horse race. During the wild hunt between the village and the pilgrimage church in Sedilo, which is repeated five times, it is important to acquire different colored equestrian standards. On the second following Sunday, the S'Ardia of the poor takes place at a run on foot. This custom has been documented since the late 17th century.

Legend has it that the feast of Sedilo is traced back to the Roman emperor Constantine the Great , although it seems to have more archaic origins, as a menhir (sard.Perda fitta ) and baityloi are placed in front of the village church of San Giovanni Battista (John the Baptist) ( moved here), are also circled. The pilgrimage church is built high above the Tirso in an enclosure that was already in use in Nuragic times. Sedilo is the most important of several places in Sardinia in which the named emperor is the only one in all of Roman Catholic Christianity to be considered a saint; a later offshoot from 1921 can be found in Pozzomaggiore. This cult was apparently introduced from the Greek East after the reconquest of Sardinia by the Vandals under Emperor Justinian I in 534 and has been attested since around the year 1000. In the Eastern Orthodox churches Constantine is officially venerated together with his mother Helena as a saint whose feast day is May 21. In the pilgrimage church of Sedilo there are several votive pictures in the style of folk art in which Constantine is shown as a saint and helper in critical life situations; in the main altar from 1669 he appears enthroned with St. New Year's Eve and Helena. This singular situation was made known to a broader public for the first time in Germany during the large exhibition in Trier on the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's seizure of power on July 25, 306, which took place in 2007. In 2010, a television film about it was shown on Arte .

Surroundings

literature

  • Urs Peschlow - Gudrun Schmalzbauer: Constantine as saint of the Eastern Church , in: Alexander Demandt - Josef Engemann (ed.): Konstantin der Große , Trier / Mainz 2007 ISBN 978-3-8053-3688-8 pp. 420-423.
  • Gudrun Schmalzbauer and Lukas Clemens: Contemporary Customs in Greece and Contemporary Customs in Sardinia , in: Ibid. Pp. 431-433.

Web links

Commons : Sedilo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/cristianocani/sets/72157629418117077/ images