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☆ In Palermo, a Catholic Saint Joins the Hindu Pantheon
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Emma Bubola | Gianni Cipriano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After they spread pink petals on golden statues of Ganesh and Shiva, and recited prayers to blue-skinned and eight-armed gods, the Hindu faithful left their temple and headed to a party for another one of their divinities — the Catholic St. Rosalia. “To the other goddess!” said Swasthika Sasiyendran, 23, after she changed from her gold-and-white sari into a T-shirt bearing Rosalia’s face. Every year, in the height of Sicily’s summer heat, Palermo fills with festival lights and honking scooters as people gather to celebrate Rosalia, the city’s patron saint. Among the hundreds of thousands who join the procession, which culminates with a towering statue of the saint being carried through the streets, are members of the city’s Sri Lankan Tamil community, some of Rosalia’s most ardent worshipers. Palermo is prone to this kind of medley.

Persons: Ganesh, Shiva, Rosalia, “, ”, Swasthika Sasiyendran Organizations: Sri Lankan Tamil Locations: Palermo, Sri Lankan

As tourists savored icy granitas under hibiscus trees and swam in the cool Mediterranean Sea, in the farmlands of Southern Sicily, among hillsides so scorched they resembled desert dunes, a farmer watched recently as his cows headed to the slaughterhouse. After months of drought, he didn’t have any water or food to give them. “It’s devastating,” said the farmer, Lorenzo Iraci Sareri, as tears fell on his tanned face, lined by 40 years of labor pasturing cows. “I have never seen something like this.”Parts of Southern Italy and other Mediterranean regions, including Greece and the southeastern Spain, are experiencing one of their worst droughts in decades. It is particularly devastating, experts say, because the lack of rainfall has been made worse by the higher temperatures caused by climate change.

Persons: ”, Lorenzo Iraci Sareri Locations: Southern Sicily, Southern Italy, Greece, Spain

In Campi Flegrei, like in Yellowstone and the world’s other supervolcanoes, the probability of a catastrophic eruption is low but not nil, said Alessandro Iannace, a geology professor at the University of Naples Federico II, who wrote a popular geology book. Solfatara, a volcanic crater near Pozzuoli, is part of the Campi Flegrei supervolcano.

Persons: Campi Flegrei, Alessandro Iannace, University of Naples Federico II Organizations: University of Naples Locations: Yellowstone, Pozzuoli

POZZUOLI, Italy—Diners at restaurants around this tiny port streamed outside while moored boats and an eight-story crane began to sway. Some cats milled about, unfazed by the umpteenth tremor to hit this picturesque seaside town. “You feel that? It’s nonstop earthquakes here,” said Luca Averna , a part-time fisherman, as he paused from working on his small boat during the 3.6-magnitude tremor. “We’re used to it, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t afraid.”

Persons: ”, Luca Averna, We’re Locations: POZZUOLI, Italy

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