🔔 The Italian Almanac

June 23

Stories and curiosities for June 23, 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… 2

2 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on June 23

Patron saint festival In 240 days 📍 Mineo

Feast of Saint Agrippina

📅 Every year, on 23 June

On 23 June Mineo celebrates Saint Agrippina, born in 243 to a noble Christian family and martyred on that same day in 258, under Emperor Valerian.

Patron saint festival In 240 days 📍 Melicuccà

Feast of Saint John the Baptist

📅 Every year, on 23 and 24 June

On 23 and 24 June Melicuccà, a municipality of 1,001 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist with the solemn procession of the statue.

Patron saint festival In 240 days 📍 Belsito

Feast of Saint John the Baptist and the fiera della Surda

📅 Every year, on 23 June; other feasts on 12 February and the last Sunday of August

In Belsito, a municipality of 958 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza, Saint John the Baptist is celebrated three times a year: on 23 June, the day of the saint's birth, with the traditional fiera della Surda.

Patron saint festival In 240 days 📍 Vittoria

Saint John the Baptist and the dawn Mass

📅 Every year, from 23 June to the first Sunday of July

At Vittoria the patron's feast begins on 23 June and ends on the first Sunday of July: pilgrims reach the basilica for the Mass at half past four in the morning.

Patron saint festival In 240 days 📍 Ardesio

The 1607 Apparition of the Virgin Mary

📅 Every year, on 23 June, in memory of the 1607 apparition

In Ardesio, 23 June commemorates the Apparition of the Virgin Mary, which occurred in 1607 in the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary.