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14 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 10
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📅 Every year, on 10 May (Our Lady of the Snow on 5 August)
On 10 May Roccaromana, a municipality of 878 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, celebrates its patron Saint Cataldus; Our Lady of the Snow has her feast on 5 August.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
On 10 May Motta Baluffi, a municipality of 980 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patron Saint Cataldus, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
On 10 May Taranto celebrates Saint Cataldus, an Irish monk who became the city's bishop: his tomb, lost after the Saracen destruction, was found on a 10 May, in 1071.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
On 10 May Farnese, a municipality of 1,631 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, celebrates its patron Saint Isidore.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
On 10 May Pratella, a municipality of 1,615 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
On 10 May Blevio, a municipality of 1,185 inhabitants in the province of Como, celebrates its patrons Saints Gordian and Epimachus, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
Corato celebrates Saint Cataldus on 10 May, held in a precious silver bust-reliquary; one tradition traces the town's name to Caius Oratus, a Roman veteran rewarded by Scipio Africanus after the conquest of Carthage.
📅 Every year, on 10 May; Saint Anthony the Abbot is celebrated on 16 and 17 January
Supino celebrates Saint Cataldus on 10 May. The town's other patron, Saint Lawrence, is celebrated on 10 August. Since the early Middle Ages, Saint Anthony the Abbot has also been celebrated, on 16 and 17 January.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
Cagnano Varano celebrates Saint Cataldus on 10 May; the other patron, Saint Michael, is celebrated on 8 May in the cave shrine dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
Massa Lubrense celebrates Saint Cataldus on 10 May.
📅 Every year, 8-10 May, with the statue carried overnight to the Fontana del Principe chapel
Cirò Marina celebrates Saint Cataldus from 8 to 10 May: during the patronal feast, the saint's statue is carried to the Fontana del Principe, where it remains for an entire night in a small chapel.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
San Cataldo celebrates its patron saint on 10 May; the town's mother church, commissioned by Baron Vincenzo Galletti di Fiumesalato and consecrated in 1739 by the baron's brother, the bishop of Catania Pietro Galletti, was only rededicated to the Immaculate Conception in 2019.
📅 Every year, on 10 May; the liturgical feast instead falls on 1 December
Pedrengo celebrates Saint Evasius on 10 May, in the church dedicated to him. A bishop who died in 362, venerated especially in Asti, Saint Evasius is also patron of Casale Monferrato; his liturgical feast falls on 1 December.
📅 Every year, on 9-10 May (Saint Fabian) and 21 July (Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Valsinni celebrates Saint Fabian on 9 and 10 May, with the kissing of his relic and a procession, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 21 July; the town was the Favale of the poetess Isabella Morra.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
Trecastagni celebrates on 10 May Saint Nicholas of Bari, its main patron, together with the co-patron martyrs Alfio, Filadelfo and Cirino, whose sanctuary becomes a destination for particularly numerous pilgrimages during this month, holding a collection of votive offerings.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
The town takes its name from Saint Philadelphus, celebrated on 10 May with his brothers Alphius and Cyrinus: on Monte Vecchio stands their Norman sanctuary, reached by a cavalcade of San Fratello horses.
📅 Every year, on 10 May (liturgical date in October)
Pietragalla celebrates Saint Theodosius the martyr on 10 May: although the saint's liturgical date falls in October, the feast was moved to spring, with fireworks displays every morning in the preceding week and the town band parading through the streets.
📅 Every year, on the Monday after the second Sunday of May, since a 2009 archiepiscopal decree
Sammichele di Bari celebrates Saint Vitus the martyr on the Monday after the second Sunday of May: since 2009, by archiepiscopal decree, the feast was moved from 9 May to this date. Saint Michael the Archangel, the other patron, is celebrated the day before.
📅 Every year, on the Monday after the second Sunday of May; the Rowing Palio since 1952
Castiglione della Pescaia celebrates Saint William of Malavalle on the Monday after the second Sunday of May. The Rowing Palio, a traditional feast held since 1952, is raced on rowing boats with five-person crews. Every first Sunday of September, the Palio di Vetulonia is instead run, a donkey race among the four districts, including San Guglielmo.
📅 Every year, on 10 May, in the town centre and in the hamlet of Casignano
Scandicci celebrates Saint Zenobius on 10 May, with civic and religious celebrations both in the town centre and in the hamlet of Casignano; the municipal territory also preserves ancient parish churches such as that of San Giuliano a Settimo, dating from the first millennium.
📅 Every year, on 10 May
Casaloldo celebrates Saints Gordian and Epimachus on 10 May, in the church that also recalls the town's historic battle.
📅 Every year, on 10 May; on 2 September the translation of the relics
Lentini celebrates the three martyred brothers on 10 May, and on 2 September repeats the feast for the translation of the relics, returned from the monastery of Fragalà in 1517.
