Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Montecatini Terme celebrates Saint Barbara, its patron: a winter date, when the spa town belongs to its own people.
No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.
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19 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on December 4
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PaternòSicily RietiLazio ColleferroLazio Montecatini-TermeTuscany SinnaiSardinia VillacidroSardinia SommatinoSicily GonnosfanadigaSardinia FiladelfiaCalabria SenorbìSardinia PradalungaLombardy NormaLazio ScandrigliaLazio AmaroniCalabria FurteiSardinia BarbaraMarche Barbarano RomanoLazio MarziCalabria GenoniSardinia
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Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December (votive on 29 July)
Salento celebrates its patron Saint Barbara on 4 December, with a votive observance also on 29 July; the municipal territory lies within the Parco Nazionale del Cilento.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Marzi celebrates its patron Saint Barbara; the municipal territory preserves the Cascata di Cannavina.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Genoni celebrates its patron Saint Barbara; the town hosts the Museo del Cavallino della Giara.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Furtei celebrates its patron Saint Barbara, invoked against thunder and lightning; the municipal territory preserves nuragic remains.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Barbarano Romano celebrates its patron Saint Barbara; the municipal territory preserves the Etruscan archaeological area of San Giuliano.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Barbara celebrates its patron Saint Barbara; the town shares its name with the saint.
Feast of Saint Barbara
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Amaroni celebrates its patron Saint Barbara, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Our Lady of Peace and Saint Barbara, Tremestieri's two protectresses
📅 Every year, on Low Sunday and the following Monday; Saint Barbara on 4 December
Tremestieri Etneo celebrates Our Lady of Peace on Low Sunday, the town's main feast, and Saint Barbara on 4 December, invoked for protection during the 17th-century plague: both are depicted by wooden statues held in the mother church of Santa Maria della Pace.
Saint Barbara and Saint Euplius, patrons of an almost-forgotten castle
📅 Every year, on 4 December and the last Sunday of August
Francavilla di Sicilia celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December and Saint Euplius of Catania on the last Sunday of August; the town arose between the years 1000 and 1100 around its castle, now in ruins and never listed among Sicily's surveyed fortresses.
Saint Barbara and the cerei of Paternò
📅 Every year, on 4 December
On 4 December Paternò celebrates Saint Barbara: the cerei, called varette here, parade before the float, and the procession stops at the church that once bore her name.
Saint Barbara and the remains of the Villa of the Bruttii Praesentes
📅 Every year, on 4 December; the sagne festival in August
Scandriglia celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December. In the summer season, the sagne festival is typical, held in August.
Saint Barbara, patron in a chapel designed by Bernini
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Rieti celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, venerated in an 18th-century chapel designed by Bernini within the cathedral complex, where in 1234 Pope Gregory IX canonised Saint Dominic and in 1289 Charles II of Anjou was crowned.
Saint Barbara, patron of Gonnosfanadiga
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Gonnosfanadiga celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, in the church dedicated to her; on the last Sunday of May, the Madonna della Salute is also celebrated, with a procession of horses, tractors and traccas carts.
Saint Barbara, patron of Norma
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Norma celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December.
Saint Barbara, patron of Rio's miners
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Rio celebrates Saint Barbara, patron of miners, on 4 December, in a town tied to Elba's mining history.
Saint Barbara, patron of the camel dance
📅 Every year, on 4 December; the first Sunday of August brings the camel dance for Saint Francis of Paola
Filadelfia celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, in the church dedicated to her. On the first Sunday of August, for the feast of Saint Francis of Paola, the camel dance is held, accompanied by the sound of drums.
Saint Barbara, patron of the Forcella Shrine
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Pradalunga celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December.
Saint Barbara, patron of the land of the Sa Spendula waterfall
📅 Every year, on 4 December; in January the blessing of animals for Saint Anthony, in June the Cherry Festival
Villacidro celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December; for the feast of Saint Anthony, protector of animals, the celebration closes on the parish church square with the blessing of animals and the distribution of blessed bread. June brings the Cherry Festival.
Saint Barbara, patron of the Monte Luna Necropolis
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Senorbì celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, in the parish church dedicated to her.
Saint Barbara, patron of the town of the Sardinian Deer Museum
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Sinnai celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December.
Saint Barbara, patron of the town that gave its name to an Ariane rocket
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Colleferro celebrates Saint Barbara, the traditional protector of those working with explosives, on 4 December; on 9 April 2003 the 15th launch of the Ariane 5 rocket carried the words «Città di Colleferro» on the boosters produced by the town's AVIO plant.
Saint Barbara, patroness and protector of Sommatino's miners
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Sommatino celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December: patroness of the town and protector of miners, she is the object of deeply felt devotion by the whole population, who dedicate a solemn procession to her.
Saint Barbara, winter patron of Fontana Liri
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Fontana Liri celebrates Saint Barbara on 4 December, alongside the 26 December observance of Saint Stephen.