San Ranieri His Company is celebrating

“Making the Saint known”. It was Archbishop Benotto’s invitation to the Company of San Ranieri when in 2011 a group of willing people asked to “reconstitute” the association linked to the Saint who had been born and died several times over the centuries. The action of the association led by Prior Riccardo Buscemi, education councilor of the Municipality of Pisa, has always followed this path. Thanks to the availability of the municipal administration, 1000 copies of the reproduction of the detail of Carlo Lasinio’s engraving of Antonio Veneziano’s fresco “Death and funeral of San Ranieri”, created between 1377 and 1385, have been reproduced on A5 format cardboard. , with the first illustration of the Leaning Tower of which the 850th anniversary of the laying of the first stone is celebrated. The image will be available free of charge in the Cathedral and at Palazzo Gambacorti on the days of the celebration, and will be presented tonight at 9.15 pm in the chapel of Sant’Agata, opened extraordinarily on the occasion of the Luminara, and decorated with the “linen” of San Ranieri – where reproductions of Carlo Lasinio’s paintings depicting the entire cycle of frescoes in the Camposanto dedicated to San Ranieri will be exhibited. The friendship is consolidated with Villamassargia, the Sardinian town near Cagliari which has San Ranieri as its patron saint and a very active equestrian group called the Knights of San Ranieri: one of their delegations, made up of twenty people, is currently in Pisa. Councilor Buscemi appeals to Pisans to support the Diocesan Caritas, committed to keeping the Citadel of Solidarity of San Ranieri open and managing the emergency of wars: after the solemn Pontifical in the Cathedral, the patron saint’s day will end with the social lunch, where donations will be collected to support the Diocesan Caritas.