🔔 The Italian Almanac

May 29

Stories and curiosities for May 29, 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… 6

6 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 29

Patron saint festival In 214 days 📍 Maenza

Saint Eleutherius and the May novena

📅 Every year, on 29 May, with the novena from 20 May

Maenza venerates Saint Eleutherius, celebrated on 29 May. The feast begins with a novena on 20 May, and on 28 May a procession is held from the town into the countryside.

Patron saint festival In 214 days 📍 Scicli

The Madonna delle Milizie, the patroness on horseback who defeated the Saracens

📅 Every year, on the last Saturday of May

Scicli celebrates the Madonna delle Milizie on the last Saturday of May: legend has it that in the 1091 battle against the Saracens, led by the emir Belcane, the Virgin came down to help the Christians on a white horse, armed with a sabre. The city's co-patron is Blessed Guglielmo Buccheri, to whom the ancient mother church is dedicated.