🔔 The Italian Almanac

April 3

Stories and curiosities for April 3, 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 3

Other saints of the day 1

Patron saint festival In 158 days 📍 Vitulazio

Our Lady of the Agnena, patron of the flower cart of the Sunday after Easter

📅 Every year, from the Thursday after Easter, with the solemn Sunday-after-Easter procession

Vitulazio celebrates Our Lady of the Agnena starting on the Thursday after Easter, with the feast culminating in the solemn, long procession of the Sunday after Easter, in which the sacred image of the Madonna is placed on a great cart decorated with flowers.

Patron saint festival In 158 days 📍 Carnate

Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, patrons of the Festa de Carnà

📅 Every year, on the Sunday after Easter, the Festa de Carnà, which once drew 15,000 faithful

Carnate celebrates Saints Cornelius and Cyprian on the Sunday after Easter, in the church dedicated to them, with the feast of the Madonna de Carnà, also known as Festa de Carnà. Taking part in the sacraments and the procession allowed the faithful to gain indulgences, and on these occasions as many as fifteen thousand people would gather in Carnate.