🔔 The Italian Almanac

May 14

Stories and curiosities for May 14, 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… 18

18 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 14

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Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Bordighera

Feast of Saint Ampelio

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Bordighera celebrates Saint Ampelio with the procession and fireworks launched from the cape that bears his name: the hermit to whom legend owes the first palm tree.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Capri

Feast of Saint Constantius

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Capri celebrates Saint Constantius, its patron, in the church that carries his name — and it does so before the island enters the summer.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Castelpoto

Feast of Saint Constantius

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Castelpoto, a municipality of 1,326 inhabitants in the province of Benevento, celebrates its patron Saint Constantius; at the end of April the town dedicates a fair-market to its red sausage.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Montaldo Torinese

Feast of Saint Victor

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Montaldo Torinese, a municipality of 749 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Saint Victor, to whom, together with Saint Corona, the town's church is dedicated.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Otricoli

Feast of Saint Victor

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Otricoli celebrates Saint Victor; in summer, instead, the town goes back to AD 168 with the Ocriculum re-enactment.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Grazzano Badoglio

Feast of Saints Victor and Corona

📅 Every year, on 14 May

On 14 May Grazzano Badoglio, a municipality of 618 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patrons Saints Victor and Corona with the procession of Saint Victor's reliquary arm.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Popoli

Saint Boniface, patron of the Palio del Certame

📅 Every year, on 14 May, with a pilgrimage to the town's churches

Popoli Terme celebrates Saint Boniface on 14 May, with homage paid in the Church of San Francesco, where the saint's relics are kept, and a pilgrimage to the town's main churches.

Patron saint festival In 199 days 📍 Bientina

Saint Valentine the Martyr, patron venerated since 1699 in a gilded urn

📅 Every year, on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday of Pentecost, for over three centuries since 1699

Bientina celebrates Saint Valentine the Martyr on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday of Pentecost. His remains, brought in 1699 from the catacombs of San Callisto on the Via Appia, have been kept in a gilded urn for over three centuries.