Particular attention deserves the celebration in honour of San Giuseppe on the 19th of March for the unusual lunch offered to commemorate the death of the Saint. Generally, such generous lunch takes place on the day of the 19th of March although sometimes it falls on another date of the month before the festivity.Its name, “Virgineddi” comes from an old tradition according to which, the food was offered to 13 poor orphans (the virgins) and to all the other poor who would knock at the door where the ritual took place. The food was eaten on a table laid next to an Icon of the Saint. Lunch consists of home made pasta with “lenticchie and fagioli” (lentils and beans) or “fave” (broad beans) prepared with wild fennel, and fruit for everyone. As mentioned before, it is offered to the poor who take turns in small groups according to the space and the amount of food available. Instead of the traditional but exhausting lunch, some prefer to distribute bread prepared the day before and shaped in different ways that represent the main characteristics of the Saint: «a varvuzza» (the beard), «a manuzza» (the hand),«u vastuni» (the walking stick), «u gigliu» (the flower), and some tools tipical of carpenters,«martiddu e tinaglia»; the bread is laid on the table where a priest blesses it. In the old days, the celebration ended with the solemn procession lead by the San Giuseppe Confraternity and followed by all the others. Right behind the statue of the Saint follow the local band and the mules, dressed up for the occasion, loaded with wheat collected from house to house by the organisers in order to pay for the expenses, including the final fire works. The offerings of the wheat, as appreciation for the miracles received evoked the pagan ritual of collecting offerings in the Greek temples. Since long, the procession in honour of San Giuseppe has been postponed to the 1st Sunday of May, and is the Confraternity of San Giuseppe that takes care of the organisation. The statue paraded around the streets is the one kept in the Chiesa Madre, whereas on the 19th of March the one kept in San Giuseppe’s Church was taken around the streets of Alimena, the latter being considered the nicest. In the banquet, two important aspects can be identified: the cult of death and the solidarity towards the poor beloved by both Jesus and by San Giuseppe, poor carpenter, elevated to the dignity of being father to Jesus, representation of God on earth.