Feast of Saint Donatus
📅 Every year, from 6 to 8 August
From 6 to 8 August Celenza sul Trigno, a municipality of 974 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Donatus (san Donato).
No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.
🎉 Celebrations today in… 18
18 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 6
Santissimo Salvatore 6
San Sisto 3
San Sisto II 2
Other saints of the day 7
NoepoliMadonna di Costantinopoli · Basilicata GombitoS.Sisto II e S.Liberata · Lombardy Villa Collemandinasan Sisto e santa Margherita · Tuscany Gasperinasant'Innocenzo diacono martire · Calabria ZerfaliuSantissima Trasfigurazione (Santu Domini) · Sardinia BorgomasinoTrasfigurazione del Signore · Piedmont Sonatrasfigurazione di Gesù · Veneto
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Feast of Saint Innocent
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Gasperina, a municipality of 2,160 inhabitants in the province of Catanzaro, celebrates its patron Saint Innocent, deacon and martyr (sant'Innocenzo diacono martire).
Feast of Saint Sixtus
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Morbello, a municipality of 408 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Saint Sixtus (san Sisto).
Feast of Saint Sixtus
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Joppolo, a municipality of 2,090 inhabitants in the province of Vibo Valentia, celebrates its patron Saint Sixtus (san Sisto).
Feast of Saint Sixtus
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Colle d'Anchise, a municipality of 802 inhabitants in the province of Campobasso, celebrates its patron Saint Sixtus (san Sisto).
Feast of Saint Sixtus and Saint Margaret
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Villa Collemandina, a municipality of 1,363 inhabitants in the province of Lucca, celebrates its patrons Saint Sixtus and Saint Margaret (san Sisto e santa Margherita).
Feast of Saint Sixtus II and Saint Liberata
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Gombito, a municipality of 636 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patrons Saint Sixtus II and Saint Liberata (san Sisto II e santa Liberata).
Feast of San Donato
📅 Every year, on 6 and 7 August
On 6 and 7 August Castel del Monte, a municipality of 447 inhabitants in the province of L'Aquila, celebrates its patron San Donato.
Feast of San Salvatore
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Castelluccio dei Sauri, a municipality of 2,119 inhabitants in the province of Foggia, celebrates its patron San Salvatore.
Feast of San Salvatore
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Cantalupo nel Sannio, a municipality of 729 inhabitants in the province of Isernia, celebrates its patron San Salvatore.
Feast of the Santissimo Salvatore
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Torchiara, a municipality of 1,803 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron the Santissimo Salvatore (Most Holy Saviour).
Feast of the Santissimo Salvatore
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Collepardo, a municipality of 975 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, celebrates its patron the Santissimo Salvatore (Most Holy Saviour).
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord
📅 Every year, on 6 August
On 6 August Borgomasino, a municipality of 835 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates the Transfiguration of the Lord (Trasfigurazione del Signore).
Saint Cajetan of Thiene, chief patron, with protector Saint Paschal Baylon
📅 Every year, on 6 and 7 August; Saint Paschal Baylon, town protector, is celebrated from 15 to 18 May
Lizzano celebrates its chief patron, Saint Cajetan of Thiene, on 6 and 7 August. Also deeply felt is the feast of Saint Paschal Baylon, protector of the town, celebrated from 15 to 18 May.
Saint Donatus and the eighteenth-century statue
📅 Every year, on 6 and 7 August
Montesano Salentino celebrates Saint Donatus, bishop and martyr, on 6 and 7 August: his eighteenth-century statue is carried in procession.
Saint Donatus of Arezzo, patron of the Sagra te li cucummari
📅 Every year, on 6 and 7 August, with further celebrations on the 14th and 28th
San Donato di Lecce celebrates Saint Donatus of Arezzo on 6 and 7 August, with further celebrations on the 14th and 28th. On the last week of May, in the hamlet of Cancellata, the Sagra te li cucummari is held.
Saint Donatus, patron of the summer festival calendar
📅 Every year, on 6 and 7 August, in a calendar that spans the Madonna del Carmine to Saint Roch in summer
Fossacesia celebrates Saint Donatus on 6 and 7 August, in the church dedicated to him. Summer also brings the Feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Fossacesia Marina on 16 July and the feast of Saint Roch in Villa Scorciosa on 16 August.
Saint Sixtus II and the TrentinoBookFestival
📅 Every year, on 6 August; the TrentinoBookFestival since 2011 in June
Caldonazzo celebrates Saint Sixtus II on 6 August. Since 2011, every June, the TrentinoBookFestival, dedicated to reading, has been held.
Saint Sixtus II, patron of Bellegra
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Bellegra celebrates Saint Sixtus II on 6 August.
San Salvatore, summer patron of Africo
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Africo celebrates San Salvatore on 6 August, alongside the 12 May observance of Saint Leo of Africo.
The Holy Saviour and the festa dì söche
📅 Every year, on 6 August, also known as the festa dì söche
Morengo celebrates the Holy Saviour on 6 August, known in dialect as the festa dì söche (feast of the pumpkins).
The Madonna of Constantinople, patroness of a town that changed its name in the 19th century
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Noepoli celebrates the Madonna of Constantinople on 6 August; the town was once called Noja, and in 1863, after the abolition of feudalism and the royal assent of Victor Emmanuel II, it took its current name, meaning «new city» in Greek.
The Most Holy Savior in the parish of Gorofai
📅 Every year, on 6 August
In the parish of Gorofai, part of Bitti, the Most Holy Savior is celebrated on 6 August.
The Most Holy Saviour, patron of a municipality of scattered hamlets
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Vezzi Portio celebrates the Most Holy Saviour on 6 August; his church stands in the main hamlet of Magnone, while the rest of this small Ligurian municipality is divided into other hamlets, each with its own church: Portio, San Giorgio and San Filippo.
The Most Holy Saviour, patron of Almenno San Salvatore
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Almenno San Salvatore celebrates the Most Holy Saviour on 6 August; the other patron, the Madonna Candelora, is celebrated on 2 February.
The Most Holy Saviour, patron of Brugine
📅 Every year, on 6 August
Brugine celebrates the Most Holy Saviour on 6 August.
The Transfiguration of Jesus, patron of the town of the Lugagnano Carnival
📅 Every year, on 6 August; allegorical float parade at Lugagnano during Carnival
Sona celebrates the Transfiguration of Jesus on 6 August; in the hamlet of Lugagnano, during the Carnival period, a great parade of allegorical floats is held, whose main mask is the «Tzigano», elected each year by the townspeople.
Festival 📍 Castelbuono
Ypsigrock Festival
📅 Every year, four days in early August
Four days of indie and alternative music at the foot of the Ventimiglia castle. Running since 1997, Italy's first boutique festival has one house rule: no artist ever plays it twice.
Palio 📍 Cefalù
'Ntinna a mari
📅 Every year on the afternoon of 6 August
A long pole slicked with grease and soap juts out over the old harbour; whoever walks it and grabs the flag at the tip wins. Cefalù's greasy-pole contest closes the Feast of the Saviour every 6 August.