{"id":5838,"date":"2025-07-21T12:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quintanadiascoli.it\/the-quintana\/the-cult-of-saint-emidio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:43:30","slug":"the-cult-of-saint-emidio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.quintanadiascoli.it\/en\/the-quintana\/the-cult-of-saint-emidio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of Saint Emidio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cult of Saint Emidio<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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According to local tradition, Saint Emidio, Ascoli's patron saint, was the city's first bishop<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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He died a martyr's death (in 303 or 309), beheaded at the site of the Tempietto di Sant'Emidio Rosso, and a legend has him as a \u201ccephalophore\u201d saint: once beheaded, he picked up his amputated head and went prodigiously to bury himself at the hypogeum now enclosed in the Tempietto di Sant'Emidio alle Grotte.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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From the 11th-12th centuries he became \u201cdefensor civitatis\u201d of the free municipality and its territorial committee. Despite the late gathering (between the 11th and 15th centuries) through successive redactions of his biographical accounts (his hagiography has been apocryphally attributed to his disciple Valentine), which have likely added facts and elements of symbolic-political significance, the Emidian cult is certainly very ancient (documented by churches dedicated to him since the 8th century. ), while the translation of his relics from the catacombs of Sant'Emidio alle Grotte to the cathedral crypt occurred around the year 1000 by Bishop Bernard II. The biographical story of St. Emidius should therefore be placed in a context of the early spread of Christianity, as documented by archaeological and archival findings, as well as a firm local tradition. Particularly interesting is the Emidian hagiographic layering, operated from elements that differ in age, content and meaning. Particularly interesting is the Emidian hagiographic layering, operated from elements that differ in age, content and meaning. In a society, such as the medieval one, which was markedly attentive to the legal regulation of social relations and institutions, conceived according to a hierarchical pyramidal organization, the term \u201cpatronus\u201d (cf. \u201cpater familias\u201d and \u201cpater gentis\u201d) evoked the need, on the part of the city community, to have the patronage of an authoritative saint of the \u201cheavenly city\u201d to whom they could entrust themselves as \u201cclientes\u201d but also as \u2018friends\u2019 and \u201cfamiliares.\u201d An obvious thread linked St. Emidius, the heavenly and invisible bishop (but close and present through his relics and places of worship) and the visible bishop, his successor on the chair in Ascoli, attentive to dialogue with civil authorities and the people.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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