La Voglia 1981

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The night of the holy sylvester the last night of the year has always been the night of fools and a hilarious fine time the saint of this day pope sylvester i according to vet is the stud who healed from leprosy and baptized the roman emperor constantine the good sylvester was a roman the son-in-law of rufinus he was ordained a priest by marcellinus chosen pope in 314 he continued the work of organizing the peacetime church so well begun by st miltiades sylvester witnessed the house of prominent churches particularly the basilica of st peter and the basilica of st john lateran built near the former imperial house of that name it is fairly probable too that the first-ever martyrology or list of roman martyrs was drawn up in his reign st sylvester died in 335 he was submerged in a church which he himself had built over the catacomb of priscilla on the across salaria his celebrate is kept on december 31 in many of the german speaking areas the switch of the year is celebrated loudly and merrily guests are invited and groups attend a sylvester ball there is slurping guzzling dancing and singing it may be accompanied by the well-liked sylvester custom-built of bleigiessen a small lump of lead will be melted over a flame in an old spoon and dropped into a bowl of cold water from the form you can supposedly tell your fortune for the coming year at midnight when the old year is nearly gone and the fresh year is about to start glasses are filled with champagne or champagne and toasts and hugs go with wishing each other ein gutes neues jahr some go out into the streets and listen to the bells ringing via the land others participate in shooting in the fresh year or put on their individual fireworks.