🔔 The Italian Almanac

June 15

Stories and curiosities for June 15, from the Italy of a thousand bell towers.

No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.

🎉 Celebrations today in… 55

55 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on June 15

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Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Tufillo

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June (Saint Justa on 1 August)

On 15 June Tufillo, a municipality of 468 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates Saint Vitus; the other patron, Saint Justa, is remembered on 1 August.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Santo Stefano del Sole

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June and the last Sunday of August (Saint Vitus); Saint Stephen on 3 August

On 15 June and on the last Sunday of August Santo Stefano del Sole, a municipality of 2,189 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates Saint Vitus; the other patron, Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, is remembered on 3 August.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Gergei

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Gergei, a municipality of 1,298 inhabitants in Sud Sardegna (South Sardinia), celebrates its patron Saint Vitus.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Felitto

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Felitto, a municipality of 1,296 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron Saint Vitus with a 7-kilometre procession and taralli given to the faithful.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Coli

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June (Saint Augustine on 28 August)

On 15 June Coli, a municipality of 955 inhabitants in the province of Piacenza, celebrates Saint Vitus, one of its two patrons; the other is Saint Augustine, on 28 August.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Ceranova

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Ceranova, a municipality of 1,894 inhabitants in the province of Pavia, celebrates its patron Saint Vitus.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Aieta

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Aieta, a municipality of 839 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza, celebrates its patron Saint Vitus.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Recanati

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Recanati celebrates its patrons, Saint Vitus and Saint Flavian, with the church of San Vito that gives the feast its name.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Polignano a Mare

Feast of Saint Vitus

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Polignano a Mare celebrates Saint Vitus the martyr. The town keeps his relics — a fragment of the arm and the kneecap — and on the coast to the north lies the hamlet named after him, with the abbey on its little harbour.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Banzi

Feast of Saint Vitus the Martyr

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Banzi, a municipality of 1,406 inhabitants in the province of Potenza, celebrates its patron Saint Vitus the Martyr.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Valdilana

Saint Bernard, patron of mountaineers

📅 Every year, on 15 June

On 15 June Valdilana celebrates Saint Bernard of Menthon, proclaimed patron of mountain-dwellers and mountaineers by Pius XI: his sanctuary stands in the Oasi Zegna, near Bielmonte.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Prato Sesia

Saint Bernard, patron of the land of the auctioned offering

📅 Every year, on 15 June; on 8 September the feast of the Nativity of Mary with vespers and the auctioned offering

Prato Sesia celebrates Saint Bernard of Menthon on 15 June, whose statue stands in the first chapel of the left nave of the parish church; on 8 September, the feast of the Nativity of Mary is celebrated, with the age-old tradition of vespers, the auctioned offering and outings in the vineyards.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Positano

Saint Vitus and the Assumption

📅 Every year, on 15 June; the Assumption on 15 August

Positano has two patrons and two dates: Saint Vitus on 15 June, when the season has just begun, and the Assumption on 15 August, when the town is at its fullest.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Badia Calavena

Saint Vitus and the Avoto of Sprea

📅 Every year, on 15 June

Badia Calavena celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June, in the church dedicated to him. On the last Sunday of July, in Sprea, the statue of Saint Roch climbs in procession to Monte Casteche for the Festa dell'Avoto.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Barbariga

Saint Vitus and the Fiera del Casoncello De.Co.

📅 Every year, on 15 June, with a festival and solemn procession

Barbariga celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June, with a traditional festival and a solemn procession. Since 2004, the local casoncello pasta has held municipal origin recognition.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Avigliano

Saint Vitus and the Madonna del Carmine

📅 Every year, on 15 June; the feast of the Carmine on 16 July

Avigliano's patron is Saint Vitus, on 15 June, but the greatest religious feast is that of the Carmine: since 1696, every 16 July, the Virgin comes down from the mountain to the town and then goes back up.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 San Vito

Saint Vitus and the Sagra de sa Pratzira

📅 Every year, on 15 June; the Sagra de sa Pratzira on the last Saturday of July

San Vito celebrates its patron on 15 June. On the last Saturday of the third ten-day period of July, the Sagra de sa Pratzira e de sa Petza de Craba is held, with the distribution of pratzira and roasted goat meat.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Mascalucia

Saint Vitus and the veil of Saint Agatha against the 1669 lava

📅 Every year, on 15 June and the first Sunday of August

Mascalucia celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June and the first Sunday of August; a 1969 plaque recalls how the patron saint and the veil of Saint Agatha were said to have saved the district from the destruction that spared it alone during Etna's 1669 lava flow.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Ravanusa

Saint Vitus, patron of a town where the biggest feast lasts a whole week

📅 Every year, on 15 June; the Ferragosto week holds the «festa di mezz'agustu» of the Assumption

Ravanusa celebrates its patron Saint Vitus on 15 June; but it is on 15 August that the great feast of Mary Most Holy Assumed into Heaven is held, called «festa di mezz'agustu» because it falls in mid-August and lasts a whole week.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Sapri

Saint Vitus, patron of Sapri's flower carpets

📅 Every year, on 15 June, with flower carpets handed down for centuries

Sapri celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June. On the feast day, the town fills with infiorate, carpets drawn and decorated with flowers and leaves, a tradition handed down for centuries as a sign of veneration and thanks to the saint.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Vita

Saint Vitus, patron of the land of the bread and laurel altars

📅 Every year, on 15 June; on 19 March bread and laurel altars for Saint Joseph, and in early August the Folklore Festival

Vita celebrates Saint Vitus on 15 June; on 19 March, in the Church of the Purgatorio, devotional altars to Saint Joseph are set up with bread and laurel, while the first week of August has hosted, since 1996, the Città di Vita International Folklore Festival.

Patron saint festival In 232 days 📍 Mazara del Vallo

U fistinu di Santu Vitu

📅 Every year, on 15 June; the festino between the second-to-last and the last week of August

Mazara's patron is Saint Vitus, on 15 June, but the festino is held in August: it opens with a proclamation in 17th-century dress and closes with the statue taken aboard a fishing boat.