Category: The Feast
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Celebrities in Cocullo
1995 – Licia Colò Licia Colò is an Italian TV hostess and journalist. She has been working exclusively for RAI since 1996, hosting documentary-based shows Geo & Geo, King Kong and Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie. Starting in 2001, she has hosted Alle Falde del Kilimangiaro, dedicated to travel documentaries, on RAI 3. Colò has also…
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The Feast Day
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The Feast In The Past
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From Snake Catchers to Researchers
Birth of a symbiosis between snake catchers and herpetologists The expertise possessed by Cocullo’s snake catchers is a precious resource to be preserved and cherished. It is astonishing that the practice of capturing snakes in their natural habitat has survived so many centuries and so many changes in the way people live. Snakes and similar…
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Capturing the Snakes
When winter is finally over and the spring sun begins to warm the earth, the hunt for snakes begins. “Stop, snake! I need you for the Feast of San Domenico!” exclaims a certain Simone, upon seeing one of these creatures slithering across the road one day in April 1768. The quotation, from a story published…
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Origin of the Snake Catchers’ Procession
(from a short biography of the saint by Don Adolfo Angelucci, former parish priest of Cocullo) The ancient historian Strabo writes that Cocullo was Rome’s last military stronghold in Lazio. The town and its environs therefore served as a logistical base for the Roman army engaged in the conquest of Corfinium. Because of their prolonged…
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Portrait of San Domenico
(From a short biography of the saint by Don Adolfo Angelucci, former parish priest of Cocullo) In the year 951, in the town of Foligno, a son was born to Giovanni, a doctor of laws, and to Apa (or Ampa, according to some authors). The pope at the time was Agapito II, and the reigning…