The patron saint of Sassuolo is Saint George, celebrated on 23 April: today the feast is marked simply, but in the past a genuine town fair used to be set up in his honour.
Among the most cherished religious traditions is the Procession of the Sacred Trunk, called in the local dialect «Al Sante tràunch», held on Holy Thursday: on this occasion the Most Holy Crucifix, a relic originally from Turkey kept in the right-hand chapel of the church of San Francesco in Rocca, is displayed to the public the one time of the year it is shown and carried in procession through the town's streets.
