The awakening of Cagliari on Easter Monday. There is an established tradition. A more intimate rite than the great feast of May 1st: the Easter Monday procession . The brothers and sisters and all the devotees of Sant'Efisio have once again dissolved their vow. In 1793, the city entrusted itself to the Saint in the face of the onslaught of the French . The invaders are eventually driven back.
The simulacrum leaves the church of Stampace at 8 to be taken to the cathedral. The procession, after crossing the Largo Carlo Felice, travels along Via Manno and faces the steep streets of Castello. With a stop, which arouses many emotions, in the chapel of the convent of the Capuchin Nuns in via Cima. Then we go up to the Cathedral. The statue is not that of May Day . It is the Sant'Efisio by the sculptor Giovanni Antonio Lonis.
Entering the cathedral sanctions the dissolution of the vow . At the end of the mass, the simulacrum, once again placed on the pedestal of honour, returns to Stampace. Now the thought is turned to the celebration of the first days of May. On Easter Monday the blessing of the pair of oxen, "No d'acquistasa" and "Chi sighisi aicci", led by Sergio Satta of Domusnovas, ready to pull the gala chariot in the great procession in honor of the warrior martyr.