THE FEAST OF SAN GENNARO 2026

 

The Feast of 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 in Lower Manhattan. He was beheaded at the orders of Emperor Diocletian on the 19th September 305. His portrait was painted posthumously by Caravaggio.

The event is especially important for Italian-Americans. Little Italy’s Mulberry Street is where the first Italian immigrants settled in New York. In 1926, they decided to organize a feast to honor their patron saint from Naples, and so the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy was born.

2026 is the 100th anniversary of the Feast of San Gennaro.