San Costanza-the favorite patron saint of Perugia

In case you are not familiar with the term, 'adventuring,'
at least for me in Perugia, consists of purposefully wandering
around with my head swiveling back and forth
between caffes, store front windows, tall cathedrals,
and massive stone arches overhead.
I had a cool day and evening last night of adventuring and
this weekend is the holiday celebrating Perugia's favorite patron saint, San Costanza.
Last evening was spent looking for the church dedicated to San Costanza
and I actually stumbled upon a celebration for him
after adventuring a bit outside of the city walls
for over an hour. It was fun seeing more of Perugia
 outside of the historical center.
Once I found the church I noticed that people were handing out roman torches
that we lit with a small community fire. About 30 minutes later
I participated in a torchlit procession to the church of San Costanza
where I sat in on a Catholic service. (It was mainly all old Italian couples).
I was so afraid that people were going to find out that
I was neither Catholic nor Italian!

Today I went to a massive outdoor market just for the holiday
for the patron saint and bought the traditional fruit cake that is shaped like
a wreath as well as candied mixed nuts. Then I had some marinara pizza
with my good friends Francesca and Taylor (shout out!).

Perugian patron saints rock.