Yesterday in Bari, in the naval station of the Guardia di Finanza, a religious function was held to welcome the statue of Saint Nicholas. The fishing boats that will transport the symbols of the saint on the day of the patron saint’s feast have also been drawn. The trawler Nuova Chiara will transport the statue while the painting will be transported by the Domenica Madre.
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Below is a statement released by the Financial Police:
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the Guardia di Finanza, at
the headquarters of the Fiamme Gialle of the Naval Section, the Rector of the Basilica of Bari, fr. Giovanni DISTANTE OP,
together with Father Tommaso Chirizzi, Military Chaplain of the Puglia Regional Command of the Guard of
Finance, presided over the Eucharistic Celebration which introduces the nine-year list of initiatives organized for
937th Anniversary of the Translation of Saint Nicholas.
In the presence of the highest city authorities as well as a large number of faithful, it was also blessed
a votive shrine that the Financiers of the Sea wanted to erect in their barracks in devotion to the Saint
Protector of sailors.
The traditional celebration of the people, who greeted their Patron Saint on the shoulders of the Committee’s bearers
Organizer of “San Nicola” and of some Fiamme Gialle, it had its culmination with the extraction of the two
fishing boats whose crews and owners will have the honor of taking on board, on 7 and 8 May,
respectively, the Painting and the Statue of the Saint.
At the end of the Eucharistic Celebration, the Puglia Regional Commander, Division General Fabrizio
Toscano, heartily thanked the Rector of the Basilica of Bari for having accepted the invitation made by the
Fiamme Gialle Baresi to celebrate the two and a half centuries of history of the Corps with the presence of the Patron Saint
of the Metropolitan City at the Vitiello Barracks in Bari.
Accompanied by timpanists and flag-wavers on the music of the “G. Band Concerto”. Bastiani – Lella” by
Bitonto (BA) and the Fanfare of the Legion of Students of the Guardia di Finanza of Bari, the statue of San Nicola,
leaving the port, it was carried in procession through the streets of the Old City until it returned to the Basilica.
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