🔔 The Italian Almanac

April 20

Stories and curiosities for April 20, from the Italy of a thousand bell towers.

No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.

🎉 Celebrations today in… 1

1 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on April 20

Other saints of the day 1

Patron saint festival In 175 days 📍 Proceno

Feast of Saint Agnes Segni

📅 Every year, on 20 April

On 20 April Proceno celebrates its patroness Saint Agnes Segni; on 5 August, for Our Lady of the Snows, a great fair sanctioned by a Brief of Pope Leo X in 1519 was held.

Procession 📍 Modica

Madonna Vasa-Vasa

📅 Every year on Easter Sunday

At noon on Easter Sunday the articulated statue of the Madonna bows and kisses the risen Christ; her black mourning cloak falls away and white doves take flight. Documented since 1645.

Pasqua Arbëreshe (Pashkët)

📅 Every year during Holy Week (movable date between March and April)

Holy Week in Piana follows the Byzantine rite, ending on Easter Sunday with a pontifical liturgy, a parade of women in gold-embroidered costumes and red eggs handed out in the main square.