🔔 The Italian Almanac

May 26

Stories and curiosities for May 26, 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… 17

17 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 26

Patron saint festival In 211 days 📍 Candida

Feast of Saint Philip Neri

📅 Every year, on 26 May

On 26 May Candida, a municipality of 1,152 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates its patron Saint Philip Neri.

Patron saint festival In 211 days 📍 Perano

Feast of Saint Philip Neri and Saint Nicholas of Bari

📅 Every year, on 26 and 27 May

On 26 and 27 May Perano, a municipality of 1,664 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Philip Neri and Saint Nicholas of Bari; on the morning of the 26th the districts offer the «conocchie», decorated carts.

Patron saint festival In 211 days 📍 Guardia Sanframondi

Saint Philip Neri, patron of the Septennial Rites

📅 Every year, on 26 May; every seven years brings the Septennial Rites for the Assumption

Guardia Sanframondi celebrates Saint Philip Neri on 26 May. Every seven years, in the week following 15 August, the Septennial Rites of penance in honour of the Assumption are held, with the procession of the Battenti.

Patron saint festival In 211 days 📍 Bitonto

The Immaculate, patron of a city spared by the 1731 earthquake

📅 Every year, on 26 May and the following days

Bitonto celebrates the Most Holy Immaculate Mary on 26 May and the following days, together with co-patrons Saint Gaetano Thiene and Saint Andrew Avellino; a Baroque obelisk still recalls today how the city was spared by the 1731 earthquake.