Introduzione

Abstract

Are the traditional Sicilian funerary uses therefore comparable with that of ancient Rome? If so, what role has the long duration of the "conflict" between the Catholic Church and pre-Christian and / or "popular" funeral rites played and still does, a moment that is also unavoidable for comparative purposes "? The attitudes assumed by the Churches regarding the expressions of the so-called "popular piety" have not been from time to time, from place to place, neither homogeneous nor constant.