1848/01/17
Richard Ford (1855). A handbook for travellers in Spain. London: John Murray. [more]
Jan. 17 is the day of San Antonio Abad, the patron of the lower Catalans and pigs; then quadrupeds are blessed. Muleteers and asses perform the tres Tours, a procession 3 times round his church: observe their costume and the huge tortells, a sort of loaf which is hung to their saddles.
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