Quattro Coronati
Four Christian sculptors martyred by the emperor Diocletian for refusing to carve a statue of the pagan god Aesculapius. On this day the men would hear a mass together, then take food and drink — the latter sometimes to excess, for the guild’s statutes state that some of the men conducted themselves on this solemn occasion come se fussino alla taverna, “as if they were in a tavern”. (King, 2000)