"Almost all Sicilian feasts are baroque", says historian Giovanni Lanzafame. Writing about the eleven "candelore", he defines the so called "annacata" as "baroque on the move". Baroque moving through a baroque city as devised by Vaccarini after the 1693 earthquake. Ten huge "candelore", and a smaller one, now lead the procession. A candelabrum in memory of cardinal Ventimiglia comes first, being followed by the "candelora" (decorated with four griffins at the basement) offered by the inhabitants of San Giuseppe La Rena. Then the candelabrum of the Floriculturists follows, in Gothic style, portraying statues of Catanian martyrs and bishops: once it was tooped with a bouquet of flowers, now replaced by a bow.

The "candelora" representing Fishmongers comes next.. it is in rococo style and bears votive offerings and a statue of St. Francis of Paola, patron of fishermen and sailors. The other "candelore" represent Greengrocers (it bears a bust of St. Agatha), Butchers (it displays a small bouquet of flowers), Makers of Pasta (an eighteenth-century candlestick), Grocers (in liberty style, decorated with characteristic caryatids at the basement), Bakers (the heaviest, carried by twelve people, instead of eight, and displaying human-height statues of angels), Vintners (carried by ten people and displaying four lions and griffins at the basement).

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