Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of the Holy Saviour
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November Roiate celebrates its patron, the Holy Saviour; the town is also home to the Chiesa di San Benedetto.
In 1435 the men of Roiate, together with those of Affile and Ponza, starved out the castle of Roccasecca, razed it to the ground and divided its inhabitants, deporting them to the three villages. The saying has stayed: «Ponza, Afile e Rujate sò tre cagne arabbiate», three mad bitches. On the top of the hill the remains of the demolished houses can still be seen.
In the village there is a boulder on which tradition says Saint Benedict left the print of his body: a church was built over it and, for a while, a convent of nuns. Now and then drops of water rise from the stone — they call it the sweating — and people read omens in it, the last time at the Irpinia earthquake. Roiate was a free commune from 962 and a fief of the monks of Subiaco throughout the Middle Ages.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.