February 17 marks the anniversary of the Patent Letters with which King Carlo Alberto, in 1848, granted civil rights to his Waldensian subjects, hitherto confined to a sort of “Alpine ghetto”. A few weeks later the same rights were granted to the Jews.
Since then, for the Waldensians and evangelicals, February 17 is the Feast of Freedom: the celebrations begin with the lighting of the bonfires on the 16th and continue the next day with worship, community lunch and theater performances in the evening.
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