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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. [a] [3] [4]
The festival, which is expected to draw a crowd of over 1.1 million visitors to Little Italy from Sept. 12 to 22, offers Italian fare ranging from sausage and peppers to Zeppoles to cannolis.
Januarius (/ ˌ dʒ æ n. j u ˈ ɛər i ə s / JAN-yoo-AIR-ee-əs; [2] Latin: Ianuarius; Neapolitan and Italian: Gennaro), also known as Januarius I of Benevento, was Bishop of Benevento and is a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Armenian Apostolic Church.
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 ...
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In 1996, Criscitelli was selected as president of Figli di San Gennaro, the Feast of San Gennaro, an Italian street festival that takes place every September on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, Manhattan. In 1995, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had threatened to close the festival because it was controlled by the Genovese crime family. Instead ...
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Cotati – Italian community in the area's grape-growing industry. [3] Excelsior District, San Francisco – Italian-American Social Club is on Russia St., and Calabria Brothers Deli is around the corner on Mission Street. [4] Fresno and some Italian descendants in portions of the San Joaquin Valley (i.e. Kern County with its grape industry). [5]