Patron saint festival In 308 days
Feast of San Bernardo di Mentone
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Montechiaro d'Asti, a municipality of 1,380 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron San Bernardo di Mentone.
The name comes from Latin Mons Clarus. In the thirteenth century the people of Mairano, Pisenzana and Maresco left their own settlements and drew in under the castle walls, safer there; of Mairano only the church remains. The paternal great-grandfather of pope Francis and the grandmother of saint John Bosco came from here.
That church, dedicated to saints Nazarius and Celsus, stands outside the village on the Bric San Nazario: founded around 1130, it alternates bands of sandstone and brick on the front and on the four-storey bell tower. When it threatened to fall it was taken apart stone by stone, each numbered, and put back as it was, only smaller.
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