Cariniana Week

This is a video of the celebration known as Cariniana Week.  It is a week of preaching and catechesis focused on forgiveness and God's mercy.  Carino is the murderer of the first Dominican martyr, Peter of Verona.  Eventually, Pietro da Balsamo, known as Carino repented and spent his life in reparation and prayer.  Hagiographies say that he wanted to be buried with the criminals, and so he was.  But Carino was so loved by the people that the protest eventually resulting having his reminds translated to the priory church.  

Carino was so popular that he wasn't forgotten.  During troubled times, Carino's remains were removed again to the cathedral of Forli.  But in 1934, the Archbishop of Milan retrieved the relics and brought them back to the parish of San Martino in Balsamo.  Eventually,  around 1964, the relics were composed as you see in the video, and placed under the altar of a new San Martino Church.  

Now, on April 28, the day of the transfer of the first relics, begins a week of celebrating Carino and God's mercy, forgiveness, and love.