Sacconi Rossi
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Sacconi Rossi were members of the brotherhood of Veneranda 'devotees of Jesus Christ at Calvary and Our Lady of Sorrows" based in the San Bartolomeo all'Isola on the Tiber Island in Rome, founded in the 17th century.[1][2]
Their task was to fish out and bury the unclaimed bodies of those who had drowned in the Tiber. They carried out this pious profession of charity in the characteristic red hood and cloak, hence the nickname.
The burial was not trivial: with a baroque necrophilic taste, the stripped bones were deposited in a "decorative" way in the underground cemetery of the convent of Santa Maria Addolorata dei Sacconi Rossi, an isolated building near the left of the basilica, still open on 2 November. A similar setting is found in the Capuchin Crypt in Via Veneto. The custom is mentioned in the 1962 film Mondo Cane.
From the early nineties, on November 2, the day of the Commemoration of the Dead, with the patronage of the San Giovanni Calibita Hospital (held by the Fatebenefratelli), a nocturnal procession in memory of the inhabitants takes place on the Tiber island, starting from the church of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, in which the members of the Confraternity participate in costume.
References
- ↑ "All Souls Day in the Sacconi Rossi Crypt". The Catholic Traveler. 30 October 2020.
- ↑ "La processione dei Sacconi Rossi". Archived from the original on 7 May 2006. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
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