Events & festivals · Montone

Patron saint festival In 147 days

Pope Gregory the Great and the Holy Thorn of Montone

📅 Every year, on 12 March

Montone celebrates Pope Gregory I on 12 March; but the town's most heartfelt feast is the donation of the Holy Thorn, on Easter Monday, instituted in 1473 by Carlo Fortebraccio.

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