Porto Empedocle – First Sunday in September

Feast of St. Calogero

The soundtrack of the festival celebrating the learned hermit and miraculous healer revered in many towns in the Agrigento area is undoubtedly the sound of drums, whose insistent rhythm accompanies the festivities that begin on the Thursday before the first Sunday in September.

The statue of the saint is carried in procession, far and wide, through the streets and squares of the town: everyone wants to see it. Living around the fifth century AD, also called the black saint because of his probable African origins, St. Calogero is venerated as a thaumaturge saint by both the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

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