Feast of Maria Santissima della Catena
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Scillato, a municipality of 627 inhabitants in the province of Palermo, celebrates its patroness Maria Santissima della Catena.
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24 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 20
San Bernardo 13
San Bernardo di Chiaravalle 2
Other saints of the day 9
San Martino d'AgriMadonna della Rupe · Basilicata ScillatoMaria SS. della Catena · Sicily Rescaldinasan Bernardo abate · Lombardy Montechiaro d'AstiSan Bernardo di Mentone · Piedmont San Salvatore di Fitaliasan Calogero eremita · Sicily Montescagliososan Rocco · Basilicata SardiglianoSan Secondo · Piedmont Bagnoli del Trignosan Vitale di Roma · Molise Conza della Campaniasant'Erberto · Campania
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Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Vauda Canavese, a municipality of 1,465 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Isolabella, a municipality of 393 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Borgoratto Alessandrino, a municipality of 617 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Roncola, a municipality of 739 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Roaschia, a municipality of 138 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Formazza, a municipality of 442 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Bosio, a municipality of 1,240 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Feast of San Bernardo di Mentone
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Montechiaro d'Asti, a municipality of 1,380 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Bernardo di Mentone.
Feast of Sant'Erberto
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Conza della Campania, a municipality of 1,432 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates its patron Sant'Erberto.
Feast of the Madonna della Rupe
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August San Martino d'Agri, a municipality of 825 inhabitants in the province of Potenza, celebrates its patroness the Madonna della Rupe.
Saint Bernard and the 1470 oath
📅 Every year, on 20 August
Castel Rozzone celebrates Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on 20 August, in the church dedicated to him. In 1470, the Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza received an oath of fealty from Knight Sagramoro II Visconti for the fief of Castel Rozzone.
Saint Bernard and the 1630 plague vow
📅 Every year, on 20 August; a perpetual vow from 1630 for surviving the plague
Mesero celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August, in the shrine dedicated to him together with Our Lady of Sorrows.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, patron of the land of garlic and the blonde hen
📅 Every year, on 20 August; the day before the garlic, turkey and blonde hen festival
Buttigliera d'Asti celebrates Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on 20 August; the day before, the Garlic, Turkey and Blonde Hen Festival is held, while on 1 May the traditional Upper Asti fair «Le contrade del Freisa» takes place.
Saint Bernard the Abbot, patron of the land of the Palio delle contrade
📅 Every year, on 20 August; in autumn the Palio delle contrade reenacts tales told by Tommaso Grossi
Rescaldina celebrates Saint Bernard the Abbot on 20 August. In autumn, the Palio delle contrade is held, reenacting the tales told by Tommaso Grossi, while between the first and second week of September, in the hamlet of Rescalda, the Grape Festival is held, with over forty years of history.
Saint Bernard, patron of Bernate
📅 Every year, on 20 August, in Bernate
In Bernate, Saint Bernard is celebrated on 20 August, in the church dedicated to him. In Casnate, Saint Anthony the Abbot is celebrated on 17 January and Saint Ambrose on 7 December.
Saint Bernard, patron of the Ham and Melon Feast
📅 Every year, on 20 August; the second weekend of July brings the Ham and Melon Feast
Fontevivo celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August. On the second weekend of July, in the park of the former Capuchin convent, the Festa del Prosciutto e del Melone has been held since 1989.
Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the Bric Lombatera
📅 Every year, on 20 August
Paesana celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August.
Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the Church of Santi Nazario e Celso
📅 Every year, on 20 August
Narzole celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August.
Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the Festa delle Capanne
📅 Every year, on 20 August; August also holds the Festa delle Capanne, especially felt by the «Capannari»
Chiaravalle celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August; in August, residents still celebrate the Festa delle Capanne, patronized by the town council, a feast especially felt by older residents, who traditionally go by the name of Capannari.
Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the Sagra del Polentone
📅 Every year, on 20 August; the Sagra del Polentone has been the town's main feast for decades
Molare celebrates Saint Bernard on 20 August; the Sagra del Polentone, officially held since the first half of the 20th century, has for decades been the town's most important feast, rooted in a folk tradition about a dish of hot polenta once offered by a local family.
Saint Calogerus the Hermit, patron venerated since 1537 through landslide and rebirth
📅 Every year, on 20 August
San Salvatore di Fitalia celebrates Saint Calogerus the Hermit on 20 August; his cult, documented since 1537, is linked to the 1615 Franciscan convent with a chapel dedicated to the saint, lost to a 19th-century landslide and now recalled in the local hospital.
Saint Roch, patron of the town of the Peach Festival
📅 Every year, on 20 August; Saint Blaise co-patron on 5 February
Revello celebrates Saint Roch on 20 August; co-patron is Saint Blaise, celebrated on 5 February. In July, the traditional Peach Festival is held, while «Revello Maggio Castello», a historical re-enactment born in 2008, recalls the capture of the castle in 1558 by Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy.
Saint Vitalis and the midsummer calendar
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Bagnoli del Trigno celebrates Saint Vitalis of Rome, in a month that, between Saint Catherine, «la firia» and Saint Anthony, has hardly a day without a feast.
Food festival 📍 Marsala
CiancioFest
📅 Every year in late August
Four evenings of food stalls, cabaret and religion in Contrada Ciancio, in Marsala's countryside: pane cunzato dressed to order, ricotta cannoli and grilled sausage, ending with a procession and fireworks. The 2026 edition runs 20-23 August.