{"id":52260,"date":"2015-02-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/02\/15\/medieval-champions-group-flies-its-flags-for-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2015-02-15T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T15:00:00","slug":"medieval-champions-group-flies-its-flags-for-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/02\/15\/medieval-champions-group-flies-its-flags-for-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval champions group flies its flags for Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They came with choreographed flags, dressed in \u00a0colorful costumes and holding trumpets. It's not the first time a group like that came to St. Peter's Square to see the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>The group visited from the Italian city of Cori. They came to the Pope's general audience on Wednesday to celebrate a very special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>LUIGI ROSSINI<br \/>\nCori Champions<br \/>\n'This year we are celebrating our 45th anniversary. Our group is dedicated to international folklore born in the Renaissance.'<\/p>\n<p>It is an old tradition in many parts of Italy. The acrobatic tricks with flags represent the messages soldiers sent in the battlefield. The sound of trumpets and drums started battles.<\/p>\n<p>LUIGI ROSSINI<br \/>\nCori Champions<br \/>\n'The flags, drums, trumpets are meant to provide rhythm for the flag waving.'<\/p>\n<p>The group's members love popular folklore and travel throughout Italy, filling the streets with color.<\/p>\n<p>LUIGI ROSSINI<br \/>\nCori Champions<br \/>\n'They do this because of opportunites like this. They show can show their personalities in a more or less important place. People from throughout the world can see.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the group showed thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square a vibrant Italian tradition filled with music and color.<\/p>\n<p>MPI\/ATO<br \/>\nAA<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp: AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15, 2015. ;The group came from the Italian city of Cori. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3Qxwt3uzB8E","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/brandomsbandieratoriint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52260"}],"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=52260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}