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We chose the custom of wedding bread and we sketched it for you!

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Bread and traditions in Greece

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The blessed bread of San Nicola da Tolentino

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The blessed bread of San Nicola da Tolentino

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The "blessed bread" is a special sign of devotion to St. Nicola from Tolentino, they are related to an episode of his life. San Nicola, seriously ill, he obtained the grace of healing for intervention of the Virgin Mary, who appeared him  in a vision and assured him: "Ask for the charity in the name of my Son, a loaf of bread. When you receive it, you eat it after dipping it into the water, and because of my intercession you will regain health. "

The saint did not hesitate to eat the bread received for charity from a woman of Tolentino, thus regaining health.
Since that day, Saint Nicola began to distribute the consecrated bread to the sick he visited, exhorting them to trust in the protection of Virgin Mary for healing from illness and freedom from sin.
Every yeas in Tolentino during the third Sunday of Lent bread is blessed in the church of San Nicola and given to people in sign of devotion

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When bread was ready to be baked, women usually traced a cross on it. Women who lived in the country  baked bread in their wood-burning ovens, on the contrary, women who lived in towns did not own such an oven and they took bread to the nearest baker’s to have ii baked.

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Houses were furnished with a piece of furniture called «mattera» or «mattora» in our dialect.
It consisted of a flatshelf, called «spianatoia» on which women kneaded bread. Under the «spianatoia» there was a cavity in which they left bread rise.

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In the past our grandmothers made bread at home.