Saint Benedict the Moor Festival

The 2025 edition of the Saint Benedict the Moor Festival in San Fratello (ME) took place during the usual mid-September dates, with the main feast day on September 17. After the preparatory triduum, the day of the solemnity featured the dawn salute, mass, and the processions of the saint's statue through the Madonna delle Grazie and San Nicolò districts in the morning and in the historic center in the afternoon, accompanied by the band and festive lights.

Regarding entertainment, the evenings in Piazza Ricca Salerno – part of the 2025 San Fratello Summer program – saw great participation: the September 16 show by Luca Virago, a finalist on The Voice Senior, and the September 17 concert by the Messinese tenor Alberto Urso, which attracted thousands of spectators. To close the festivities, as per tradition, there were fireworks.

Preparatory triduum: September 14-16, masses at the Mother Church.

Tuesday, September 16: afternoon procession; in the evening, in Piazza Ricca Salerno, show by Luca Virago (The Voice Senior).

Wednesday, September 17 (solemnity): dawn salute, mass, and morning procession of the statue through the Madonna delle Grazie and San Nicolò districts; solemn afternoon procession in the historic center with the band; in the evening, concert by tenor Alberto Urso in Piazza Ricca Salerno and concluding fireworks.

The concert by tenor Alberto Urso on September 17, which drew a massive crowd, and the solemn procession of the statue through the illuminated historic center.