Dal 28 al 30 giugno di ogni anno Galatina festeggia i suoi Santi Patroni
From 28 to 30 June of each year Galatina celebrates its Patron Saints, Saint Peter and Paul with a long lineup of religious and civil events.
In the popular narrative it is handed down that St. Peter and Paul stopped in Galatina during their evangelization trips around the world.
The Mother Church preserves the boulder on which it is said that St. Peter sat, to rest during one of the stages in Salento on his journey from Antioch to Rome, so much so that the ” keys of Peter”.
Of the visit of St. Paul, received in the home of a citizen of Galatina, a well remains from which the Saint made water flow as a thank you for the hospitality.
The beneficiary family dedicated the small chapel in their home to Saint Paul.
Since then it has been a pilgrimage destination for all tarantolati, who go there to ask for the grace of healing from the taranta bite.
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