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Feb 5: The Feast of Sant’ Agata – Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Jan 28, 2022 | Goddess, Strega and Italian-Americana

The 2002 Calendaro Abruzzese from abruzzo2000.com that I purchased and kept tells us that “5th of February is the feast of Sant’ Agata who is the ‘protector of breast-feeding women, and as such is highly venerated in the countryside, since good and abundant milk was a...

Through the Apennines and the Lands of the Abruzzi

by Theresa | May 13, 2021 | Strega and Italian-Americana

In my research into the Abruzzo region of Italy that my family is from, for my novel The Strega and the Dreamer, I found the work of women ethnographers, folklorists and travel writers of the early 1900s to be the most helpful. Ethnography is: 1. The branch of...

Feb 5: The Feast of Sant’ Agata – Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

Through the Apennines and the Lands of the Abruzzi

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