After two years in a very small form, the Feast of the Vow returns in its entirety, which the archbishop of Sassari Arcangelo Mazzotti instituted in 1943 to save Sassari from bombing.

"This year prayer will also be for peace , because as the Pope recalls there is a war in pieces, in different parts of the world, one that is also particularly close to us", specified the current archbishop Gian Franco Saba in presenting the celebrations that will start tonight with the transfer of the statue to the Cathedral with the escort of the local police.

Sunday is the key day with masses at the Cathedral of San Nicola from 6 in the morning until 11. In the afternoon at 16 the Holy Rosary and at 17 the solemn pontifical presided over by the Archbishop of Sassari with the presence of the Turritano Chapter and all the priests of the city.

At the end of the celebration, the procession on foot: the statue of the Virgin will be taken back to the sanctuary of San Pietro in Silki by the fire brigade of the provincial command. In the procession, archconfraternities, gremi, associations, faithful and of course the municipal administration led by the mayor Nanni Campus , who declared: “This is the moment when I feel happiest and proudest to be the mayor of Sassari”.

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