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Updated: May 11, 2025
It came, meek-eyed and wondering, if a little weary, to this festa of San Triphilio, to whom its first shearing would be vowed, as a special tribute to the saint and a talisman to shield the flocks upon the mountains.
It was the festa of San Triphilio, patron-saint of the city of Nikosia; the great church on the bluff beside the castle was filled with the sickly flames of paltry candles brought by the peasants from far and near.
From the quaint tower on the castle-wall one might see them coming in little processions, winding through the forest that clothed the plains below pausing on the banks of the stream Pedea, to gather water-bloom and rushes to scatter before the shrine of San Triphilio, in memory of the early days when the city had sprung from the marshes to stand fair and firm upon the hillside above them, beautiful to behold girt about with impregnable walls and gateways, guarded by its famous citadel, and fortified within by churches dedicated to many saints.
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