The celebrations for the patron, Saint Angelo of Jerusalem, fill the first days of May and culminate on the 5th, the day of the patronal feast. Tradition traces their origin to 8 May 1457, when the cult of the saint was confirmed during the provincial Chapter of the Carmelites of Sicily, held at Licata.
The main event is the run of the urn: the 17th-century silver urn holding the saint's relics, accompanied by four ceri, great wooden processional machines also dating from the 17th century. The urn is carried by the sailors, the ceri by representatives of the traditional trades — farmers, tenant farmers, sailors, shepherds. Along the way flower petals are thrown from the balconies, and between bearers and crowd runs the dialect call «E chi semu surdi e muti?» — «Are we deaf and dumb, then?» — answered with «Viva Sant'Angelo!». The run, tradition says, re-enacts the moving of the relics to save them from Ottoman raids.
