🔔 The Italian Almanac

May 13

Stories and curiosities for May 13, 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… 4

4 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 13

Patron saint festival In 198 days 📍 Agnone

Feast of Saint Cristanziano

📅 Every year, on 13 May

On 13 May Agnone celebrates Saint Cristanziano, its patron; on 11 June it is Saint Anthony's turn, with the procession that comes down from the little abbey into town.

Patron saint festival In 198 days 📍 Suelli

Feast of Saint George of Suelli

📅 Every year, on Whit Monday (from the previous Thursday to the following Tuesday)

Suelli, a municipality of 1,135 inhabitants in South Sardinia, celebrates Saint George of Suelli on Whit Monday, with a festival that begins the previous Thursday with the «circa de is carrus».

Patron saint festival In 198 days 📍 Casaletto Spartano

Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari

📅 Every year, on 13 May (15 August and 8 September are also among its feast days)

On 13 May Casaletto Spartano, a municipality of 1,463 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari, to whom the town's church is dedicated.

Patron saint festival In 198 days 📍 Carbonia

Saint Pontian, patron of a town founded in 1938 to serve the mines

📅 Every year, on the Thursday after the second Sunday of May

Carbonia celebrates Saint Pontian on the Thursday after the second Sunday of May, in the church on Piazza Roma inaugurated together with the town itself in 1938; the name «Carbonia» literally means «land of coal», a testament to its origin as a Fascist-era mining town.

Patron saint festival In 198 days 📍 Fiscaglia

The Madonna della Corba, patron amid the hamlet fairs

📅 Every year, on 13 May; the hamlets fill the year with their own fairs and festivals

Fiscaglia celebrates the Madonna della Corba on 13 May. The hamlets fill the year with their own fairs and festivals: the Flower Fair in mid-May at Migliarino, the Volano and Bread Fair in early June at Massa Fiscaglia, the Saint Anthony Fair in mid-June at Migliaro.