Feast of Saint Eusebius
📅 Every year, on 14 August
On 14 August Venaria Reale celebrates Saint Eusebius, and for the occasion the town hall and municipal services close. It is the patronal feast, and the town takes it seriously.
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Feast of San Cataldo
📅 Every year, on 14 August
On 14 August Montenero Sabino, a municipality of 295 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron San Cataldo.
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 15 August, with the procession of the night of the 14th
On 15 August Noasca, a municipality of 169 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary), with the procession of the night of the 14th.
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 14 August
On 14 August Pievepelago, a municipality of 2,241 inhabitants in the province of Modena, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary) with the procession of the two confraternities and fireworks.
Feast of Santa Maria Assunta
📅 Every year, on 14 and 15 August
On 15 August Valtorta, a municipality of 292 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary), with the annual tombola on the evening of the 14th.
Feast of the Patron Saints
📅 Every year, from 14 to 17 August
From 14 to 17 August Surano, a municipality of 1,698 inhabitants in the province of Lecce, celebrates its Patron Saints: the martyrs of Otranto, Maria Assunta and San Rocco.
Our Lady of Consolation, patron of the shrine built by the citizens
📅 Every year, on 14 August, with a novena, episcopal mass, and thousands of pilgrims
Ghisalba celebrates Our Lady of Consolation on 14 August, in the shrine built by its citizens to commemorate an apparition of the Madonna. Every year, thousands of people visit the shrine, with a novena and mass celebrated by a bishop.
Saint Anthony of Padua, patron of Solità
📅 Every year, at the end of the second week of August, in the hamlet of Solità
The hamlet of Solità, in Budoni, celebrates its patron, Saint Anthony of Padua, at the end of the second week of August.
Saint Gaudentius, patron of the town of the Revertera palace and its legend
📅 Every year, on 14 August
Garaguso celebrates Saint Gaudentius on 14 August; the town, rebuilt after the 1694 earthquake around the palace built by Duke Francesco III Revertera, preserves a popular legend about the nightly lament of the dukes for their vanished son.
Saint Helena the Empress, patron of five days of celebration
📅 Every year, from 14 to 18 August, with concerts, fairground rides and final fireworks
Casapesenna celebrates Saint Helena the Empress from 14 to 18 August, with a procession, folk music concerts, fairground rides, food stalls and a final fireworks display.
Saint Roch, patron of the Easter Cumprunta
📅 Every year, from 14 to 24 August; Easter Sunday brings the Cumprunta on Corso Roma
Girifalco celebrates Saint Roch from 14 to 24 August, on Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II. On Easter Sunday, the Cumprunta or Cunfrunta is held, on Corso Roma; on the first Sunday of October, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Santa Maria Patrona, the 14th-century icon donated by Charles II of Anjou
📅 Every year, from 14 to 16 August, «i fist d'agust»
Lucera celebrates Santa Maria Patrona from 14 to 16 August, «i fist d'agust» in Lucera dialect; the wooden statue of the Virgin, donated by Charles II of Anjou and crowned in 1806, has as co-patrons Saint Francis Anthony Fasani, «the saint of rain», and Saint Roch.
The Madonna del Bosco, patron of Spinazzola
📅 Every year, on 14 August
Spinazzola celebrates the Madonna del Bosco on 14 August; the other patron, Saint Sebastian, is celebrated on 20 January.
The Madonna della Grotta, patron of three days of celebration
📅 Every year, from 14 to 16 August, with bonfires on the beach on the evening of the 15th
Praia a Mare celebrates the Madonna della Grotta from 14 to 16 August, with the statue carried in procession through the town. On the evening of 15 August, Praia's young people light bonfires on the beach in her honour.
The martyrs of Otranto
📅 Every year, on 14 August
On 14 August Otranto remembers its patrons: some eight hundred prisoners beheaded in 1480 for refusing to renounce their faith, after the Turks stormed the town.