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On
26th-27th-28th September Isernia
celebrates Saints Cosma and Damiano. This, for the people of Isernia, is
the most important and significant feast. Thousands of pilgrims climb to
the hermitage where the church devoted to the two Holy Doctors is
situated.
The feast is held together with a large fair, once classified
amongst those of the “forgivenesses”. In the 18th century
the feast became famous in the greater part of Europe for the presumed
survival of ancient cults in honour of the pagan god Priapus.
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