The legends sorrentine - the miracle of Sant'Antonino
By the way…
Sorrento, country of sea and therefore of fishermen, The sea source of life but also of fear…
… You tells that one day, while the fishermen were offshore the coast for their job, his/her children they played who on the beach with the sand to build castles, who swam and it competed with the friends… to the sudden one near the tonnares an enormous fish appeared (a whale?) that you/he/she advanced threatening to the turn of the unaware swimmers and did you/he/she devour one of his/her/their children. To the cries of the companions, they realized quickly rowing the fishermen of the zone, but uselessly. Meanwhile the news it scattered him in country and to the desperate weepings of the mother of the disappeared child Sant'Antonino responded, then a humble abbot of the monastery of Sant'Agrippino, that descents on the beach and it ordered to the “monster” to return the baby. The fish vomited on the sand Pasqualino I cure and except. All celebrated and since then they had a particular devotion for Sant'Antonino.