Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 8 May
On 8 May Bari celebrates Saint Nicholas. His relics reached the city on 9 May 1087, carried by sixty-two Bari sailors who had taken them from Myra, in Lycia.
No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.
🎉 Celebrations today in… 68
68 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 8
San Vittore 21
RhoLombardy VerbaniaPiedmont LainateLombardy CorbettaLombardy MissagliaLombardy Terno d'IsolaLombardy AlbavillaLombardy Villa CorteseLombardy BottanucoLombardy Arsago SeprioLombardy AgnadelloLombardy San Vittore del LazioLazio ValleranoLazio MeseLombardy SizzanoPiedmont CasalzuignoLombardy Brezzo di BederoLombardy CaioloLombardy FormiglianaPiedmont PerlettoPiedmont MomperonePiedmont
San Michele Arcangelo 19
MarcianiseCampania CerveteriLazio OttavianoCampania Castiglion FiorentinoTuscany FilottranoMarche Monte UranoMarche Olevano sul TuscianoCampania Sant'ArcangeloBasilicata CinquefrondiCalabria Sant'Angelo a CupoloCampania PomaricoBasilicata CiternaUmbria MoroloLazio ContradaCampania Chiusano di San DomenicoCampania Sant'Angelo d'AlifeCampania AlbidonaCalabria Torre CajetaniLazio AritzoSardinia
San Michele 7
San Vittore Martire 3
San Vittore il Moro 2
Other saints of the day 16
Coreglia AntelminelliArcangelo Michele · Tuscany SerramazzoniBeata Vergine del Rosario · Emilia-Romagna Gualdo CattaneoBeato Ugulino e santi Martiri Antonio ed Antonino · Umbria Falconara MarittimaMadonna del Rosario · Marche PacentroMadonna della Misericordia · Abruzzo TarquiniaMadonna di Valverde · Lazio MontalcinoMaria Santissima del Soccorso · Tuscany Sessa Auruncasan Leone IX Papa · Campania Sinagrasan Leone di Catania · Sicily Grammichelesan Michele Arcangelo e santa Caterina · Sicily BariSan Nicola · Puglia Rocca d'Evandrosan Rocco · Campania Arcisatesan Vittore · santa Felicissima · Lombardy Castellisant'Eusanio · Abruzzo Piombinosanta Anastasia · Tuscany Bedizzolesanti Stefano, Ermolao e Acacio Martiri · Lombardy
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Patron saint festival 📍 Sambuca di Sicilia
Festa di Maria Santissima dell'Udienza
📅 Every year on the third Sunday of May
Sambuca's biggest night of the year: on the third Sunday of May, a statue carved by Antonello Gagini is carried through the old town until nearly dawn, greeted with folk chants at eleven decorated stops.
The Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii
📅 Every year, on 8 May and the first Sunday of October
On 8 May and the first Sunday of October tens of thousands of pilgrims reach the sanctuary for the Supplication, recited at the same moment by devotees of the Rosary wherever they are.