{"id":4944,"date":"2026-01-12T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/2026\/01\/santantoni-de-su-ohu-feast-of-saint-anthony-the-abbot\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:59:25","slug":"santantoni-de-su-ohu-feast-of-saint-anthony-the-abbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/2026\/01\/santantoni-de-su-ohu-feast-of-saint-anthony-the-abbot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sant&#8217;Antoni de su Ohu&#8221; &#8211; Feast of Saint Anthony the Abbot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"84\"><strong data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"84\">Feast of Saint Anthony Abbot &#8211; Mamoiada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"468\">The <strong data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"120\">Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot<\/strong>, known as <em data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"151\">Sant&#8217;Antoni de su Ohu<\/em> (of the fire), takes place on <strong data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"197\">January 16 and 17<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"241\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mamoiada<\/span><\/span><\/strong> and is one of the oldest celebrations in Sardinia. The event officially opens the <strong data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"348\">Sardinian Carnival<\/strong> with the lighting of <strong data-start=\"369\" data-end=\"383\">30-40 bonfires<\/strong> scattered around the village, around which <strong data-start=\"434\" data-end=\"442\">wine<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"445\" data-end=\"467\">traditional sweets<\/strong> are shared. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"804\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The most anticipated moment is <strong data-start=\"497\" data-end=\"511\">Jan. 17<\/strong>, with the <strong data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"632\">first annual outing of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mamuthones<\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Issohadores<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, who dance around the fires in an archaic ritual, suspended between <strong data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"715\">the sacred and the profane<\/strong>, symbolizing <strong data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"741\">fertility<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"757\">protection<\/strong> and renewal under the blessing of the saint.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"804\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Museum of Mediterranean Masks awaits you to rediscover Barbaric roots and traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feast of Saint Anthony Abbot &#8211; Mamoiada The Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot, known as Sant&#8217;Antoni de su Ohu (of the fire), takes place on January 16 and 17 in Mamoiada and is one of the oldest celebrations in Sardinia. The event officially opens the Sardinian Carnival with the lighting of 30-40 bonfires scattered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museomaschere.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}