Feast of San Gennaro

The Feast of San Gennaro is an annual celebration of Italian culture and the Italian-American community in New York City. It has expanded over the years from a 1-day religious commemoration to an 11-day street festival in mid-September.

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Italian culture - Italian-American - New York City

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Centered on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, Manhattan, closed to traffic for the occasion, the festival generally features parades, street vendors, sausages and zeppole, games, and a religious candlelit procession which begins immediately after a celebratory Mass at the Church of the Most Precious Blood.

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Little Italy, Manhattan - Mass

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San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) is the patron saint of Naples, Italy. His feast day is September 19 in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The first Feast of San Gennaro was held on September 18, 1926, by newly-arrived Neapolitan immigrants who retained the customary observance from the old country.

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Saint Januarius - Patron saint - Naples - Italy - Feast - September 19 - Liturgical calendar - Roman Catholic Church - 1926

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Similar festivals have also been sponsored in other U.S. cities.

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