Chiesa di San Biagio in Montegranelli

Church located in the middle of the houses in an ancient village, not very big, but very beautiful ... Dedicated to San Biagio, bishop and martyr. At the time a parish, when the parish was still part of the Florentine Romagna, of the Diocese of Sansepolcro, then subsequently inserted in the Diocese of Sarsina and currently in the Diocese of Cesena - Sarsina (currently united to the parish of San Piero in Bagno). Inside a single nave, an altar redone in a renovation of many years ago ... Behind the altar there is a painting depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated with the title of Madonna della Rondine, which is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of May (or last Saturday of the month of May) The Blessed Carlo da Montegranelli, born in 1330, who founded a religious order in Fiesole in 1405, the Congregation of the Hermits of San Girolamo, who observed the rule of Sant 'Agostino, which was later suppressed by Pope Clement IX on 6 September 1668; he wanted to go to the Holy Land, but in Venice where he had to embark to leave, he fell ill and died there on 15 September 1417, his feast in Montegranelli is celebrated on the Sunday closest to September 15 or the closest Saturday ... Every year on February 3 San Biagio is remembered with the Holy Mass and at the end Blessing of the throat and food and small convivial refreshments ...