Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Samone, a municipality of 1,614 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
Samone turns up in 955 in a diploma of Berengar, among the villages of the Pedagna, and in 1278 in a pact between Ivrea and the marquises of Monferrato: the town and some lands nearby, Samone among them, were to bear no passing armies, cavalcades or other levies. The village had no parish priest until 1787; before then services were held in a small chapel.
That chapel is still there, inside the parish church of San Rocco: baroque, single-naved, raised at the end of the eighteenth century. The saint is painted in an oval above the door; the bell tower with its clock stands back to one side.
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