Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint Vigilius
📅 Every year, on 26 June
On 26 June Ovaro, a municipality of 2,010 inhabitants in the province of Udine, celebrates its patron Saint Vigilius.
The name, they say, comes from the Latin ovis, sheep, welded to a Celtic expression meaning to bring back: the place where the flocks were brought back. Under the little medieval church of San Martino the excavations found a fourth-century basilica of some four hundred square metres, with an octagonal baptistery before it: it was built while the mountains were filling with people come up from the plain in search of safer ground.
The men of these valleys went out as cramârs, pedlars of spices and haberdashery in the lands of the Empire, and the weavers went to inner Istria: the money came home. Since the Church forbade lending at interest, loans were dressed up as contracts on land, and so land counted for more and more: in Carnia it cost more than down in the plain, which is far more fertile.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.