The small church of San Gavino a Mare, in Porto Torres, leaves its doors open to host the faithful who, until Pentecost Sunday, will pay homage to the seventeenth-century wooden simulacra of the three martyrs Gavino, Proto and Gianuario.

The pilgrimage of devotees has begun and for about two weeks, as per tradition, they will go to pray in the tomb of the saints, a place of worship where the statues are preserved in plexiglass cases. One of the religious events of the Festha Manna , a rite that began on May 3 with the procession starting from the basilica with the three saints carried on their shoulders to the small church of Balai, facing the sea.

The simulacra will return to the Romanesque church in procession on Sunday 19 May, accompanied by the civil, military and religious authorities and the population. The following day, Monday 20 May, the liturgical celebration will be held presided over by the Turritan archbishop, Gian Franco Saba. The celebration will end with the ritual of exchanging keys between the mayors of Porto Torres and Sassari.

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