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7 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on January 19
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📅 Every year on 19 January
On 19 January Marsala honours its patron: the small statue of the Madonna della Cava, found in a quarry in 1518 according to tradition, is carried in procession to the cathedral for a solemn mass — and the town takes the day off.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Bassano del Grappa celebrates Saint Bassian and Blessed Giovanna Maria Bonomo on 19 January; on this very date, the day of the patronal feast, a town prize tied to the occasion is presented every year.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Lodi celebrates Saint Bassianus on 19 January; his remains rest in the cathedral's crypt, whose construction symbolically began on 3 August 1158, the very day Frederick Barbarossa refounded the town on the banks of the Adda.
📅 Every year, on 19 January, with shaved grana cheese tasted at the beans-and-pork-rind feast
Pizzighettone celebrates Saint Bassianus on 19 January. The other hamlets have their own patrons: Saint Roch in Gera, Saint Patrick in Regona and the Blessed Virgin of Roggione in Roggione.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Castellammare di Stabia celebrates Saint Catellus on 19 January; the 14th-century arch named after him, today one of the town's symbols, was in fact an entrance to the old cathedral, and his chapel in today's co-cathedral holds Roman-era archaeological finds.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Tiggiano celebrates Saint Hypatius on 19 January, in the church dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
Ghilarza celebrates Saint Macarius the Great on 19 January.
📅 Every year, on 19 January
In 1412 a small band of men from Ampezzo and Cadore stopped the imperial troops of Sigismund of Luxembourg at the Cimabanche pass. The credit went to the Madonna della Difesa, and every 19 January since Cortina has kept the vow.
