Patron saint festival In 53 days
Saint Ambrose, patron of the land of the mills on the Adda
📅 Every year, on 7 December
Vignate celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December, in the church dedicated to him.
Vignate lies in the Martesana, east of Milan, in a belt of springs where several fontanili still surface, some reduced to little more than a ditch. The name comes from Vineate, from the Latin vinea with a Celtic suffix meaning place or district, and vines really were the local crop until phylloxera arrived. The first mention is a notarial deed of 25 May 776, naming a Guifredus de Vineate, envoy of the king.
When the last feudal lord, Count Antonio Teodoro Trivulzio, died, the community paid the Spanish government of Milan 48 lire for every household, 4,074 lire in all, and in 1691 bought its way out of feudal tenure, while almost every neighbouring land was being re-enfeoffed. The arms tell the rest: Saint Ambrose above, patron of the village, and below, on gold, a vine branch with three bunches of grapes.
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