431:- Agnello Grasso di Cicciano slaughtered an ox affected by carbuncle on 10 February, the next day he was seized with chills and a strong fever, and noticed a pustule on his right arm; after a few hours he saw the formation of other pustules near the first. The doctor diagnosed him with a malignant pustule and recommended hospitalization. Grasso went to the Incurables of Naples, but no treatment had any effect. The wealthy family decided to treat him at home and had him visited by two doctors twice a day, but the disease progressed and new pustules began to appear also in the other arm. The mother and daughter-in-law decided to go to the saint's feet to ask him for thanks and listened to the mass on their knees, promising the saint a sung mass and a silver child. A picture of the Protector was in the sick room. The next day when the doctors went to see him, they declared that the disease had lost its strength and Grasso received healing. On March 13, together with the bride and mother, they thanked the Saint.
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of Malta in the 15th century, to the dignity of a diocesan sanctuary of Sant'Agnello abbot, particularly aimed at the defence and to the promotion of nascent life. Rodio celebrates Sant'Agnello three times during the year: May 31, a votive festival that commemorates the prodigious cessation of the rain that was destroying the vineyards; August 8, solemn feast, with the participation of pilgrims and emigrants and
December 14, liturgical feast. From Rodio the devotion has spread to neighbouring countries that have made statues and celebrate feasts in honour of the abbot: Pisciotta (1891), Vallo della Lucania (early twentieth century), Pellare (thirties), Ascea and Ascea Marina (seventies). In 1979, the capital Pisciotta obtained from the competent Roman Congregation that, alongside the ancient protectors Santa Sofia and San Vito, Sant'Agnello was also proclaimed its patron. In Pisciotta, Sant'Agnello is celebrated on 10 August and 14 December.
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sent by the promoting committee for the Patron Saint's Day, containing medals depicting the
Madonna del Rosario on one side and the Saint on the other (it was the first time that the committee struck a medal). At that moment a friend arrived who made him drink an extract of melon and almonds, the sick man drank it holding the madagline in one hand. After drinking it, he felt invigorated, got up from bed with glee and walked around the house. When he left the hotel the following day, he immediately returned to Roccarainola where, with his wife and children, he thanked the patron saint.
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401:- thanked the Wonderworker for 3 graces received: one for him who, thanks to the Saint, overcame a difficult appendix operation, the second thanks for the daughter who broke her leg in the lower third and recovered completely and the third for two girls who reduced to extremes for measles, pneumonia and typhoid fever. To thank the Saint, the Galeotta sent a silver leg and two little girls to the parish as a sign of devotion to the saint.
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Protector appeared to him and inspired him to invoke him; immediately he vowed to the saint to sing a mass and to send him a wax leg if he was healed. In the following days, the conditions improved until he recovered. When he left the hospital, he had sung mass celebrated on 10 July and on 10 September, instead of presenting the wax leg, he presented the Grand
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Cilento, particularly in the town of Rodio, a fraction of the Municipality of Pisciotta, which also venerates it as its patron. On 30 July 2009, the bishop of Vallo della Lucania, Monsignor Giuseppe Rocco Favale, elevated the parish church of Rodio, built by the Knights
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Bartolomeo in June 1904 was suffering from gastroenteritis, with fever, consecutive self-intoxication, and continuous diarrhoea. The devotee risked collapse and no experimental cure took effect. After 20 days he was about to go to a paid hospital, but his hotelier brought him an envelope
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