{"id":47301,"date":"2019-12-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/12\/08\/flagbearers-escort-pope-at-general-audience\/"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T12:00:00","slug":"flagbearers-escort-pope-at-general-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/12\/08\/flagbearers-escort-pope-at-general-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagbearers escort pope at General Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how they greeted Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>This is the group of flagbearers and musicians from Foligno. It's a medieval arts group that conserves artistic tradition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATTEO<\/strong><br \/>\nFlagbearer <br \/>\n<em>\u201cIt was a very special moment: to see Pope Francis and to be seen as a flagbearer for him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>STEFANO COLTORTI<\/strong><br \/>\nFlagbearer <br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe are very excited- it's a great honor to be so close to the pope. It's also a great honor to perform in St. Peter's Square.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The flagbearers originated at the end of the 14th century to announce periods of war, but today, they celebrate the music of drums and trumpets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEONARDO<\/strong><br \/>\nFlagbearer <br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe are a group of 33 people. We wear Baroque costumes and show folkloric traditions of Foligno.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It's a picturesque and important cultural tradition that brightened St. Peter's Square for the pope and all those around.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<br \/>\nTranslated: Rachel Dobrzynski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 2019. They greeted him with flags, drums and trumpets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RX5pt35KEt0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomsbandieratorifolignoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/brandomsbandieratorifolignoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}