Patron saint festival In 247 days
Feast of Saints Gervasius and Protasius
📅 Every year, on 19 June
On 19 June Massignano, a municipality of 1,655 inhabitants in the province of Ascoli Piceno, celebrates its patrons Saints Gervasius and Protasius.
The village carries the name of a landowner, Massinius, and in 967 the emperor Otto I made a gift of his estate to the abbey of Farfa, far away in the Sabina. A couple of kilometres off stand the ruins of the fortress of Forcella, and in 1208 the papers already name a Tebaldo di Masigniano.
In 1532 the village was besieged by Muzio Colonna, come down to help the men of Ascoli in their war with Fermo; and in 1567 there was talk of detaching Massignano from Fermo and placing it directly under the Holy See, but ten years later Gregory XIII, by a solemn bull, gave it back. In the parish museum there is a Hungarian cope of the fifteen hundreds.
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Chiesa di Santa Maria 📍 Cantù · 12 km The octagonal seventeenth-century church built for the Benedictine nuns of Cantù, beside today's town hall. chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 12 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 12 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 12 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 13 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 13 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951.