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Offering of candles for the feast of the Patron Saint Emidio

 
 
  1. pages and musicians with the standard
  2. elders
  3. councilors of the Order
  4. rectors
  5. other officials
  6. corporations of the 12 principal Arts (doctors, lawyers and procurators, merchants, plagerii, furriers, shoemakers, builders, carpenters, stoneworkers, weavers, smiths, cotton workers) with lit candles
  7. the commoners (Statutes, Communal Statutes, Lib. III, Rubr. 6).
 

Still today, the representatives of the antique arts and trades participate in the ceremony of the Offering of the Candles. Offering a candle for each Art to the Bishop, after which the mayor of the city offers a large candle in the name of the City.