Feast of Saint Alexander
📅 Every year, on 9 February
On 9 February Melfi celebrates Saint Alexander of Bergamo, its patron. The Good Friday procession and that of Saint Anne on 26 July are also deeply felt in town.
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11 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on February 9
Sant'Apollonia 6
Other saints of the day 5
MolfettaCorrado di Baviera Madonna dei Martiri · Puglia Nocera Umbrasan Rinaldo · Umbria Canosa di Pugliasan Sabino · Puglia Melfisant'Alessandro di Bergamo · Basilicata Pessano con BornagoSanti Vitale e Valeria (Pessano) · Santi Cornelio e Cipriano (Bornago) · Santa Apollonia (celebrazione comunitaria) · Lombardy
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Feast of Saint Rinaldo
📅 Every year, on 9 February
On 9 February Nocera Umbra celebrates Saint Rinaldo, the bishop who adopted an orphan boy and whom the people proclaimed a saint as soon as he died, in 1217.
Saint Apollonia and the Horse Festival
📅 Every year, on 9 February, with the burning of the balloon
Asso celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February, with the burning of the balloon: although Saint John the Baptist is the town's formal patron, this is the more deeply felt celebration. Every first Saturday of October, the Horse Festival is held.
Saint Apollonia and the Monti Silk Mill Museum
📅 Every year, on 9 February
Abbadia Lariana celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February.
Saint Apollonia, a communal celebration uniting the patrons of the two hamlets
📅 Every year, on 9 February, a communal celebration uniting the patrons of the two hamlets
Pessano con Bornago celebrates on 9 February, the feast of Saint Apollonia, a communal celebration uniting the patrons of its two hamlets: Saints Vitalis and Valeria for Pessano and Saints Cornelius and Cyprian for Bornago.
Saint Apollonia, patron celebrated with a fair-market still cherished today
📅 Every year, on 9 February, with a fair-market
Cantù celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February, with the traditional fair-market; the town is also known today for its Carnevale Canturino, with four town parades, and for the Carnevale Ambrosiano, which in recent years has become one of the region's largest.
Saint Apollonia, patron of the land of the Parish of the Redeemer
📅 Every year, on 9 February
Camponogara celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February.
Saint Apollonia, patron of the town of the 1656 plague vow
📅 Every year, on 9 February; the «festa della Signorina», linked to the 1656 plague vow, is held on 8 December
Ariccia celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February; during the 1656 plague the town was spared the scourge, and the people of Ariccia attributed the grace to the Madonna di Galloro, giving rise to the «festa della Signorina», today celebrated on 8 December.
Saint Apollonia, patron of the town of the Palio dei Saraceni
📅 Every year, on 9 February; the Palio dei Saraceni re-enacts the historic landing at the canal port
Bellaria-Igea Marina celebrates Saint Apollonia on 9 February; the town is also known for the Palio dei Saraceni, re-enacting the landing of over three hundred performers from ten historic boats, and for the Bellaria Film Festival, dedicated to Italian independent cinema since 1983.
Saint Conrad of Bavaria, the pilgrim who became patron of Molfetta
📅 Every year, on 9 February
Molfetta celebrates Saint Conrad of Bavaria on 9 February; his bones, kept in a gold and silver bust by Neapolitan craftsmen in the Assumption cathedral, belonged to a pilgrim bound for the Holy Land who chose to remain in the town, later becoming its patron saint.
Saint Sabinus, patron venerated in the basilica dedicated to him
📅 Every year, on 9 February
Canosa di Puglia celebrates Saint Sabinus on 9 February, in the basilica named after him; in the week before Palm Sunday the town lives with intense popular participation the Holy Week rites, including the procession of the «Desolata».