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Saint Joseph and Our Lady of the Angels, patrons of the two hamlets

18 July 2027

Sunday 18 July

Rossiglione · Genoa · Liguria

July 2027Sunday 18 July
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Rossiglione celebrates two distinct patrons for its two hamlets: the Dormition of Saint Joseph, on the third Sunday of July, in the Lower Hamlet, and Our Lady of the Angels, on the first Sunday of August, in the Upper Hamlet.

Rossiglione has two patrons, one for each of its historic hamlets: the Dormition of Saint Joseph (Transito di san Giuseppe), celebrated on the third Sunday of July in the Lower Hamlet (Borgata Inferiore), and Our Lady of the Angels, on the first Sunday of August in the Upper Hamlet (Borgata Superiore), which stands about a kilometre upstream and was historically known by the name of Villafranca.

In the Lower Hamlet stand the oratory of San Sebastiano, which holds an 18th-century wooden statue and the remains of a 17th-century marble reliquary, and the oratory of Nostra Signora Assunta, already mentioned in the apostolic visitation of Monsignor Carlo Montigli in 1585, whose confraternity of the Disciplinanti was active until its suppression ordered by Napoleon in 1805; the oratory still holds fresco cycles by the painter Andrea Semino dated 1586.

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Chiesa di Santa Caterina

The parish church of Rossiglione Superiore keeps a processional case attributed to Maragliano.