Feast of San Calogero in Sciacca

The feast of San Calogero in Sciacca is celebrated annually on the Tuesday after Pentecost. This day commemorates the miraculous help that San Calogero brought to the inhabitants of Sciacca in 1578, after a series of earthquakes.
The day before the festival, Monday, and the same day the Saccense citizenship as a sign of devotion to saint goes on pilgrimage from the city center to Mount San Calogero on foot, even barefoot, a pilgrimage of about 7-8 km, from the early hours of the morning. The solemn mass takes place on Tuesday evening, at the end of which the procession of the statue of the saint takes place. The pilgrimage follows which will end on Mount Kronio with the celebration of a last mass.

Dates and Scheduling

21 May 2024

SS. Masses at 7:00, 8:30, 10:00, 17:00, 22.00
Pilgrims will be refreshed by local workers, with the help of the Institute. Hotelier of Sciacca and "Chefs of Agrigento".

11:30 Holy Mass

16:00 Party with the "children of San Calogero" animated by the young friars of the TOR

17:30 Opening PHILATELIC CANCELLATION, to commemorate 1400 years of the Compagnia di San Calogero.

19:00 Pontifical presided over by H.E. Monsignor Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, archbishop emeritus of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches and of Piana degli Albanesi.

20:00 Procession of the Sacred Relics of Calogero, Gregorio and Demetrio along the avenues of Monte Kronio, accompanied by the “Tammurinari” of Agrigento.
Present the “Fraternità San Calogero Sicilia”.

23:00 Eucharistic Procession from the San Calogero Grotto to the Basilica and Eucharistic blessing from the sacrament to the City.

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