Patron saint festival In 251 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of San Fior
📅 Every year, on 24 June
San Fior celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, in the church dedicated to him.
The church of San Fior is two churches: the new one, twentieth-century and neo-Gothic, was built around the old one, which is still there, set into its right-hand side, and in 1998 it was restored, bringing the old frescoes back to light. Inside there is something you would not expect in a country parish church: the polyptych of Saint John the Baptist by Cima da Conegliano, eight panels in a wooden frame. And then a marble font dated 1494 and a wooden crucifix attributed to Andrea Brustolon.
A religious congregation was born here too: the Sisters of the Holy Face, founded by Maria Pia Mastena, who is buried at San Fior. The village is full of wayside shrines and votive niches, in the old hamlets as in the new estates; one of the hamlets carries the name of the poet and patriot Sebastiano Barozzi, who was born there, and a plaque on the house wall recalls him.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.