by prof. Trident Cosmo.
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" prodeunt Vexilla regis" ("Forward the banner of the King") is the official anthem of the impressive pre-Easter processions that molfettesi revived every year with intense religious faith of the Cross procession (at midnight on the last days of Carnival); procession of (the Friday before Palm Sunday), Procession of the Mysteries (Good Friday); procession of Mercy (Holy Saturday)
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wrote prof. Dionisio Altamura ( prodeunt Vexilla Regis, "Mezzina, Molfetta 1983) Vexilla the noun is a plural poetic Vexilium-i, which is translated in the singular with the meaning of banner, flag, namely the Cross, Regis is the genitive of Rex (Re), namely, Christ, the predicate prodeunt (go on) refers to the fact that the Cross is carried in procession and above.
The hymn consists of seven quatrains in Latin with which enhances the mystery of the Cross ("Cross Fulget mysterium ") and ends with the request to the SS. Trinity, after you have taken the song of praise to bestow the prize of the victory of the Cross ("Cross quibus victoriam / largiris trained Praemium") that is eternal life to all those who know how to get good fruit from the Passion of Christ. Author of the hymn
Venanzio Clemenza Honorius Fortunatus (Latin: Venantius Clementianus Honorius Fortunatus). Born about 530 in Valdobbiadene (Treviso) which is the patron, he studied grammar and rhetoric and law in the near Aquileia to Ravenna. When a student was hit by a serious eye disease, which made him almost blind, but from which he recovered after his cleansing eyes with the oil lamp burning on the altar of the Basilica of San Martino and John Paul at Ravenna. To pay tribute to this saint, Venanzio undertook a long pilgrimage to Tours. In Poitiers knew Radegund, daughter of Bertera, king of Thuringia, with which it formed a deep friendship. Radegund, wife of Clotaire I, he retired to the monastic life after the assassination of his brother (Clotacario) by Clotaire himself. She founded a monastery that became known as Holy Cross in response to a relic of the Holy Cross donated to Radegonda by Justinian II, Emperor of the East. Fortunato was on that occasion that he wrote the "Vexilla Regis prodeunt" and the "Pange lingua glorious" works that are recognized by the Church as the liturgical texts. On the death of Radegund (587) was ordained a priest and assumed the spiritual direction of the convent. In 597 he was appointed bishop. Throughout his life he wrote hymns, essays, funeral elegies, sermons and poems dedicated to the lives of the saints, including St. Martin and Saint Radegund. He died Dec. 14 of 607.
should be noted in passing that after the death of Jesus Christ of the Cross on which he was crucified not heard anything for three centuries. The fact is explainable: the horror that he had left in the minds of the tragedy of the Cross, the Mosaic law, which required that all traces of torture disappeared before Easter, the persecutions which were the facts in Jerusalem apostles and disciples of the Master, the destruction of Jerusalem under the Emperor Vespasian and Titus his son for work, fell away into every search of the Cross.
St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine (306-337), was the woman chosen by God, to implement the divine plan. In a vision, showed her the place of Calvary where he was the Cross of Jesus Jacopo da Voragine, in his "Golden Legend " states that after having found the three crosses, Elena had to put a body on the first cross, and not nothing happened, so for the second cross, but on the third, the corpse came to life, so he knew what was the Cross of Christ, which is variously depicted even the national flags of seven EU countries (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Greece and Malta).
And speaking of this sacred hymn, I am reminded (word of Carducci) a popular anecdote Molfettese. A brother from the "red bag" named Felice ( Felìsce ), in the great events of Christianity, such as Easter, he preferred to eat turkey meat at the table because - he said - " ind'ò sells u Vicci nén bands crapìcce ( the turkey in your belly is not a tantrum, because of its high digestibility due to the low presence of fat and connective tissue). Little did he care Molfettese ancient tradition of eating lunch in the Easter u cu benedìtte vredìtte (lamb soup with beaten egg). Well, a Good Friday, while the procession passed through the Dead Christ in the darkness of night, by Ament (Old Town), Felice saw eg chembenézeiòene (it happens), a turkey that was perched in a cage in front of a home in ground and taken by an irresistible instinct hungry (as in the past demanded a common religion quite frugal diet for Lent), took it, hiding it beneath the red-shirts tobacco, typical Archconfraternity S. Stefano. It would be rebuilt "incidentally during the Easter lunch, although strong was her desire to break the traditional abstinence from meat and follow the example of such a jolly fellow who had been seen" magna a piñata de turd (thrush) in the During Lent of 1606. "
How and how he could hide the turkey, we do not know, let them deal with it the popular imagination. The fact is that, probably because of the awkward position, he could not conceal the bird perfectly. In fact, one foot out from the underside of the gown (it should be said that the turkey is a gallinaceous with long legs and short wings and tail). A friend's brother, who was in line behind him, having noticed the scene of subterfuge, and wanted to warn him, chanting with the members of St. Stephen at that time elevated the song to Vexilla Dead Christ, "said singing
" Felìsce Abbasciano chémese u / ac if the vèiete Cemb Vicci du "(Happy lowers overall, we see the leg of the turkey). Immediately understood the hint es'affrettò happy to reassure the kind friend, replying: "Pure is bbùene avvesàte about me / us if Noen avédda read arrested (thank goodness I was warned that, otherwise I had to be stopped) The arrest , if there were, would take place just on that street whose name (Ament) takes its name from the word "fine" to mean repair of crime. In fact, here ancient times the criminals suffered the punishment of flogging as "fine" for their misdeeds. But the apparent equanimity
Felice did not last long. In fact, you want the weight ( Vicci du ) that blinked in the lower back, do you want for the terror that someone noticed the crime, the fact is that his legs began to make "James James", ie to have the "jitters" as Leslie Phillips sang in the '60s.
Which is why (always singing the Vexilla notes), " arrevàte sott'alla doors / acchemenzàie to make u strong "(just under the door, began to show off strength). Sott'alla doors is the intersection of routes Annunziata, Lieutenant Spider, Dominic Picca, and Sergio Pansini, where stood a gateway to the second city wall. In this site, in the early hours of the morning, they found farmers and farm workers to plan their daily work activities in the countryside Molfetta).
" Arrevàte 'nnénz'o Pezzelechéne / Tremolo acchemenzàie in the northern (arrived near the well of the dogs began to shake her skirt. Pezzelechéne is the confluence of the streets Cross and Youth and Our Lady of Martyrs, where once in a sinkhole karst (capevìende) is throwing the rabid dogs).
" Arrevàte 'nnénz'o mecìedde / Tremolo acchemenzàie to acìdde u" (come in the vicinity of the slaughterhouse, the bird began to tremble). The municipal slaughterhouse in 1875, located in Via Madonna dei Martiri, is now converted into a local market).
do not know the end of this episode, but we can assume that the unwary Felìsce sooner or later abandon the procession of Christ dead and if they come home, to avoid u Vicci, exhausted from his enforced immobility, could retaliate with an abominable, foul-smelling "legacy" corporal. All's well that ends well, say the wise
The mixture of sacred and profane in this paper should not be regarded as impairing or desecrating the sanctity of the hymn, on which the story is set, it's real or fantasy, or must be considered disrespectful to the story itself, preserved in a long oral tradition.
We know that the people lived intensely the sacred in the making, but outside of the sacred function gives way to an ironic sort of reliving of the sacred itself.
Witness all the stories about St. Peter's such as that relating to the procurement of the ham ( a'ppèrse us ... u Presutti ) or those based on the miracle of transformation of the stones into bread, when Peter took it a little, and adaptation of the stones in stools, when Peter I took a big one.
ironic capacity of the people we have plenty of examples. Even the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli in his sonnet raises the rice with the misunderstanding populate the Latin phrase "secundum magnam tuam Misericordiam," in which "magnam" is perceived as a voice of the verb "magnet" (eat).
The story of the "Vicci" is not detrimental to either the name of Felix, because many names are entered in Molfetta remained in nursery rhymes, which has no recollection of episodes from which they spring, and made to our understanding of children of more than half a century ago. For example
Joseph (O Geséppe / émmìne Roet the / u and Suen cambenìedde and makes the precenìedde Abbate), Gaetano (Caiténe Caiténe the paten ngul'o chen), Antonio (Éndoneie Éndoneie vu do òeve: aun'è mémmet'è u alt'a sorete) Leucio (Send Liuzzi: nu nu spreduzze and shoes), Victoria (Vettoreie Vè cachénn 'and I allecchénne), Giambattista (Gémméttiste nziste nziste bands figs ind'o chénistre) Corrado (Corrado Corradi pees the mméz'a vi), Nicola (Necóele fav'è'ccóele mitte fueco to the pestòele), Chiara (Chiarine chiénd 'Haggi and pitrisìne) ; Donato (the sad houses of Denéte / ci éere zùepp'e us Stena); Onofrio (What bedd Nofarudde bands and u pìdete nén disciples Nudd), Paul (Paolucci Paolucci from a vèieve to chèr'a pacifiers), Leonardo ( Lénérdùcce Lénérdùcce, and calzengìcchie Tarallucci), Anna (E sciùmm'e sciùmm'e sciùmme / cumm Ienni Tenev sciùmme u / u and there nge Scazzi ava / chien chien cumbia Cherri) and others that do not transcribe not to bore the reader. Not for those
molfettesi the rhymes have been afraid to give their children names "sung" with irony: Giuseppe, Gaetano, Antonio, Leuca, Victoria, Giambattista, Corrado, Nicola, Claire, Donato, Onofrio, Paul Leonard, Anna and many others. "The word makes the man free speech is an act of freedom," say Ludwig Feuerbach (The Essence of Christianity ).
. How wrote prof. Dionisio Altamura ( prodeunt Vexilla Regis, "Mezzina, Molfetta 1983) Vexilla the noun is a plural poetic Vexilium-i, which is translated in the singular with the meaning of banner, flag, namely the Cross, Regis is the genitive of Rex (Re), namely, Christ, the predicate prodeunt (go on) refers to the fact that the Cross is carried in procession and above.
The hymn consists of seven quatrains in Latin with which enhances the mystery of the Cross ("Cross Fulget mysterium ") and ends with the request to the SS. Trinity, after you have taken the song of praise to bestow the prize of the victory of the Cross ("Cross quibus victoriam / largiris trained Praemium") that is eternal life to all those who know how to get good fruit from the Passion of Christ. Author of the hymn
Venanzio Clemenza Honorius Fortunatus (Latin: Venantius Clementianus Honorius Fortunatus). Born about 530 in Valdobbiadene (Treviso) which is the patron, he studied grammar and rhetoric and law in the near Aquileia to Ravenna. When a student was hit by a serious eye disease, which made him almost blind, but from which he recovered after his cleansing eyes with the oil lamp burning on the altar of the Basilica of San Martino and John Paul at Ravenna. To pay tribute to this saint, Venanzio undertook a long pilgrimage to Tours. In Poitiers knew Radegund, daughter of Bertera, king of Thuringia, with which it formed a deep friendship. Radegund, wife of Clotaire I, he retired to the monastic life after the assassination of his brother (Clotacario) by Clotaire himself. She founded a monastery that became known as Holy Cross in response to a relic of the Holy Cross donated to Radegonda by Justinian II, Emperor of the East. Fortunato was on that occasion that he wrote the "Vexilla Regis prodeunt" and the "Pange lingua glorious" works that are recognized by the Church as the liturgical texts. On the death of Radegund (587) was ordained a priest and assumed the spiritual direction of the convent. In 597 he was appointed bishop. Throughout his life he wrote hymns, essays, funeral elegies, sermons and poems dedicated to the lives of the saints, including St. Martin and Saint Radegund. He died Dec. 14 of 607.
should be noted in passing that after the death of Jesus Christ of the Cross on which he was crucified not heard anything for three centuries. The fact is explainable: the horror that he had left in the minds of the tragedy of the Cross, the Mosaic law, which required that all traces of torture disappeared before Easter, the persecutions which were the facts in Jerusalem apostles and disciples of the Master, the destruction of Jerusalem under the Emperor Vespasian and Titus his son for work, fell away into every search of the Cross.
St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine (306-337), was the woman chosen by God, to implement the divine plan. In a vision, showed her the place of Calvary where he was the Cross of Jesus Jacopo da Voragine, in his "Golden Legend " states that after having found the three crosses, Elena had to put a body on the first cross, and not nothing happened, so for the second cross, but on the third, the corpse came to life, so he knew what was the Cross of Christ, which is variously depicted even the national flags of seven EU countries (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Greece and Malta).
And speaking of this sacred hymn, I am reminded (word of Carducci) a popular anecdote Molfettese. A brother from the "red bag" named Felice ( Felìsce ), in the great events of Christianity, such as Easter, he preferred to eat turkey meat at the table because - he said - " ind'ò sells u Vicci nén bands crapìcce ( the turkey in your belly is not a tantrum, because of its high digestibility due to the low presence of fat and connective tissue). Little did he care Molfettese ancient tradition of eating lunch in the Easter u cu benedìtte vredìtte (lamb soup with beaten egg). Well, a Good Friday, while the procession passed through the Dead Christ in the darkness of night, by Ament (Old Town), Felice saw eg chembenézeiòene (it happens), a turkey that was perched in a cage in front of a home in ground and taken by an irresistible instinct hungry (as in the past demanded a common religion quite frugal diet for Lent), took it, hiding it beneath the red-shirts tobacco, typical Archconfraternity S. Stefano. It would be rebuilt "incidentally during the Easter lunch, although strong was her desire to break the traditional abstinence from meat and follow the example of such a jolly fellow who had been seen" magna a piñata de turd (thrush) in the During Lent of 1606. "
How and how he could hide the turkey, we do not know, let them deal with it the popular imagination. The fact is that, probably because of the awkward position, he could not conceal the bird perfectly. In fact, one foot out from the underside of the gown (it should be said that the turkey is a gallinaceous with long legs and short wings and tail). A friend's brother, who was in line behind him, having noticed the scene of subterfuge, and wanted to warn him, chanting with the members of St. Stephen at that time elevated the song to Vexilla Dead Christ, "said singing
" Felìsce Abbasciano chémese u / ac if the vèiete Cemb Vicci du "(Happy lowers overall, we see the leg of the turkey). Immediately understood the hint es'affrettò happy to reassure the kind friend, replying: "Pure is bbùene avvesàte about me / us if Noen avédda read arrested (thank goodness I was warned that, otherwise I had to be stopped) The arrest , if there were, would take place just on that street whose name (Ament) takes its name from the word "fine" to mean repair of crime. In fact, here ancient times the criminals suffered the punishment of flogging as "fine" for their misdeeds. But the apparent equanimity
Felice did not last long. In fact, you want the weight ( Vicci du ) that blinked in the lower back, do you want for the terror that someone noticed the crime, the fact is that his legs began to make "James James", ie to have the "jitters" as Leslie Phillips sang in the '60s.
Which is why (always singing the Vexilla notes), " arrevàte sott'alla doors / acchemenzàie to make u strong "(just under the door, began to show off strength). Sott'alla doors is the intersection of routes Annunziata, Lieutenant Spider, Dominic Picca, and Sergio Pansini, where stood a gateway to the second city wall. In this site, in the early hours of the morning, they found farmers and farm workers to plan their daily work activities in the countryside Molfetta).
" Arrevàte 'nnénz'o Pezzelechéne / Tremolo acchemenzàie in the northern (arrived near the well of the dogs began to shake her skirt. Pezzelechéne is the confluence of the streets Cross and Youth and Our Lady of Martyrs, where once in a sinkhole karst (capevìende) is throwing the rabid dogs).
" Arrevàte 'nnénz'o mecìedde / Tremolo acchemenzàie to acìdde u" (come in the vicinity of the slaughterhouse, the bird began to tremble). The municipal slaughterhouse in 1875, located in Via Madonna dei Martiri, is now converted into a local market).
do not know the end of this episode, but we can assume that the unwary Felìsce sooner or later abandon the procession of Christ dead and if they come home, to avoid u Vicci, exhausted from his enforced immobility, could retaliate with an abominable, foul-smelling "legacy" corporal. All's well that ends well, say the wise
The mixture of sacred and profane in this paper should not be regarded as impairing or desecrating the sanctity of the hymn, on which the story is set, it's real or fantasy, or must be considered disrespectful to the story itself, preserved in a long oral tradition.
We know that the people lived intensely the sacred in the making, but outside of the sacred function gives way to an ironic sort of reliving of the sacred itself.
Witness all the stories about St. Peter's such as that relating to the procurement of the ham ( a'ppèrse us ... u Presutti ) or those based on the miracle of transformation of the stones into bread, when Peter took it a little, and adaptation of the stones in stools, when Peter I took a big one.
ironic capacity of the people we have plenty of examples. Even the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli in his sonnet raises the rice with the misunderstanding populate the Latin phrase "secundum magnam tuam Misericordiam," in which "magnam" is perceived as a voice of the verb "magnet" (eat).
The story of the "Vicci" is not detrimental to either the name of Felix, because many names are entered in Molfetta remained in nursery rhymes, which has no recollection of episodes from which they spring, and made to our understanding of children of more than half a century ago. For example
Joseph (O Geséppe / émmìne Roet the / u and Suen cambenìedde and makes the precenìedde Abbate), Gaetano (Caiténe Caiténe the paten ngul'o chen), Antonio (Éndoneie Éndoneie vu do òeve: aun'è mémmet'è u alt'a sorete) Leucio (Send Liuzzi: nu nu spreduzze and shoes), Victoria (Vettoreie Vè cachénn 'and I allecchénne), Giambattista (Gémméttiste nziste nziste bands figs ind'o chénistre) Corrado (Corrado Corradi pees the mméz'a vi), Nicola (Necóele fav'è'ccóele mitte fueco to the pestòele), Chiara (Chiarine chiénd 'Haggi and pitrisìne) ; Donato (the sad houses of Denéte / ci éere zùepp'e us Stena); Onofrio (What bedd Nofarudde bands and u pìdete nén disciples Nudd), Paul (Paolucci Paolucci from a vèieve to chèr'a pacifiers), Leonardo ( Lénérdùcce Lénérdùcce, and calzengìcchie Tarallucci), Anna (E sciùmm'e sciùmm'e sciùmme / cumm Ienni Tenev sciùmme u / u and there nge Scazzi ava / chien chien cumbia Cherri) and others that do not transcribe not to bore the reader. Not for those
molfettesi the rhymes have been afraid to give their children names "sung" with irony: Giuseppe, Gaetano, Antonio, Leuca, Victoria, Giambattista, Corrado, Nicola, Claire, Donato, Onofrio, Paul Leonard, Anna and many others. "The word makes the man free speech is an act of freedom," say Ludwig Feuerbach (The Essence of Christianity ).
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Vexilla Regis Prodeunt
(Il testo originale)
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1. Vexilla Regis prodeunt: Fulget Crucis mysterium,
Qua vita mortem pertulit, Et morte vitam protulit.
2. Quae vulnerata lanceae Mucrone diro, criminum
Ut nos lavaret sordibus, Manavit und(a) et sanguine.
3. Impleta sunt quae concinit David fideli carmine,
Dicendo nationibus: Regnavit a ligno Deus.
4. Arbor decor(a) et fulgida, Ornata Regis purpura,
Electa digno stipite Tam sancta membra tangere.
5. Beata, cuius brachiis Pret(i)um pependit saeculi:
Statera facta corporis, Tulitque praedam tartari.
6. O CRUX AVE, SPES UNICA, Hoc Passionis tempore
Piis adauge gratiam, Reisque dele crimina.
7. Te, fons salutis Trinitas, Collaudet omnis spiritus:
Quibus Crucis victoriam Largiris, adde praemium. Amen.
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* Testo a cura del prof. Cosmo Tridente.
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