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The patronal feast of Saint Francis and Saint Catherine (Italian: festa patronale di san Francesco e santa Caterina) [a] is a religious and civil celebration annually held on 4 October in Italy [1] and other locations influenced by Christianity.
Today, Francis' feast is celebrated at New Skete, an Eastern Orthodox monastic community in Cambridge, New York founded by Catholic Franciscans in the 20th century. [ 91 ] St. Joseph the Hesychast had Francis as his baptismal name, and the Greek tradition always requires Saint's names to be taken at baptism.
The Italian national patronal day, on 4 October, celebrates Saints Francis and Catherine.Each city or town also celebrates a public holiday on the occasion of the festival of the local patron saint, [7] for example: Rome on 29 June (Saints Peter and Paul), Milan on 7 December (Saint Ambrose), Naples on 19 September (Saint Januarius), Venice on 25 April (Saint Mark the Evangelist) and Florence ...
National calendars of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church are lists of saints' feast days and other liturgical celebrations, organized by calendar date, that apply to those within the nation or nations to which each calendar applies who worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church.
Feast of Saints Francis and Catherine; G. Feast of San Gennaro; Giglio Society of East Harlem; I. Indian Christian Day; International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted ...
However, Catherine's feast day was not initially included in the General Roman Calendar. When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, 29 April; however, because this conflicted with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which also fell on 29 April, Catherine's feast day was moved in 1628 to the new date of 30 April. [68]
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During the medieval period, Saint Catherine's Day marked the beginning of Advent in England. [2]Catterntide was celebrated by lacemakers. [3] A traditional celebration of St Catherine's Day, which has seen something of a revival in modern times, is the baking of symbolic 'Cattern Cakes' in honour of St Catherine.