Feast of San Gennaro
Annual Christian festival of Saint Januarius / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Feast of San Gennaro (in Italian: Festa di San Gennaro), also known as San Gennaro Festival, is a Neapolitan and Italian-American patronal festival dedicated to Saint Januarius, patron saint of Naples and Little Italy, New York.[1]
His feast is celebrated on 19 September in the calendar of the Catholic Church.[lower-alpha 1][3][4]
In the United States, the "Festa of San Gennaro" is also a highlight of the year for New York's Little Italy, with the saint's polychrome statue carried through the middle of a street fair stretching for blocks.