Patron saint festival In 127 days
Saint Leo, the bishop of Catania who found refuge as a hermit in Rometta
📅 Every year, on 20 February
Rometta celebrates Saint Leo on 20 February; the saint, bishop of Catania known as the Thaumaturge, found asylum in Rometta between 725 and 780, after opposing the iconoclastic edicts of the Byzantine emperors, retiring to a cave on the Peloritan hills.
