Patron saint festival In 282 days
Feast of San Prospero
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of July
On the last Sunday of July Cressa, a municipality of 1,571 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Prospero.
The name seems to go back to a Roman called Crescinio or Crescente, named on a stone found at Santa Cristina di Borgomanero. In Roman times the place was Crisiae, a deed of 1236 writes Cresia, and today's spelling appears only in 1330, when the monastery of Arona granted lands to a Giovanni known as il Ceredano.
In the fields south of the village stands the Romanesque oratory of San Giulio, first recorded in 1025 as a dependency of the parish church of Suno. A stone slab with three carved crosses lies before the wooden door; inside, frescoes probably of the fifteenth century show San Giulio with plague victims and with snakes.
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