The patroness of Bivona is Saint Rosalia, celebrated on 4 September: the town holds one of the oldest firmly attested cults of the saint. The church dedicated to her, from the 13th-14th centuries and with a Baroque portal, keeps the float of the saint's statue, from 1601, a wooden crucifix and some 18th- and 19th-century canvases; a small trapdoor gives access to the trunk of the oak tree under which, tradition says, the saint used to pray during her time in the Bivona woods.
The people of Bivona have their own nickname, judè (Jews), tied both to the old presence of a Jewish community from the late Middle Ages onward, and to a now-lost tradition: carrying an ebonised wooden crucifix in procession on the first Friday after Easter.
