Saint Liberata (Pizzone)
Saint Liberata is the patron saint of the village of Pizzone, Italy. She is declared a holy virgin and martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Her father was Lucio Catelio Severo and mother was his wife Celsia. She had eight other twin brothers and sisters (Geneva, Victoria, Eufemia, Germana, Marina, Marciana, Basilisa, and Quiteria), of which all of them, together with Liberata, were martyred, under the regime of Emperor Hadrian. Her remains are kept at the Cathedral of Sigüenza, Spain. Her feast day is really June 10 in Pizzone and June 8 in America (mainly around the Chicago area), though other accounts claim it is January 11 or July 20.[citation needed]
Masses/Processions Held in Honor of Saint Liberata
Throughout the mid- and late-1900's, about 1,000 emigrants from Pizzone had migrated to the Chicago area. Now every June 8th at the Divine Savior Church in Norridge, Illinois, certain of those the emigrants attend a one-hour mass dedicated to the saint and also attend a thirty-minute religious procession around five blocks of the streets there, which also features a live trumpet/drum band, both first exiting and then entering the premise when finished. This is organized annually by the Saint Liberata Club of Chicago, founded 1944, also in honor of the saint. As for in Pizzone, on June 10th, they also hold the same above-mentioned mass/procession also, though it is not known in what the manner they hold the activity.
Inno a Santa Liberata V.M.
O liberata, i palpiti dei nostri cuori accogli, tu l'innocenza serbaci, e in noi sempre germogli ... germogli.
Tu di Pizzon le mura, proteggi o donna pura, tu di Pizzon le mura, proteggi o donna pura.
Te donna forte, i numi invano tentano di vincere, che del tuo sangue tingere, ti placque il suolo Ispano ... Ispano
Tu di Pizzon le mura ...
Hai vinto satana
Vincesti anche le divinitate
Quando sul legno intrepida
Chiuder volesti i lumi ... i lumi
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
Se ti transurano
Se all'odio ti fan segno con la croce
Salve! Che del Empireo
T'assunse Dio nel regno ... nel regno
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
Madre sorridici
Dal cielo Tu allieta i nostri cuori
Ed i profumi salgano
A te di questi fiori ... di fiori
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
Tu di Pizzon le mura
Proteggi o donna pura
See also
- (in Italian) Liberata. This is the article in which some of the information for this article has been used for.