Porto celebrates the summer and a beloved saint with plastic hammers, sardines and leeks By: Helena Alves And Suman Naishadham, The Associated Press Posted: 5:08 AM CDT Tuesday, Jun. 24, 2025 Last ...

People rest their plastic hammers on a wall while watching flying lanterns soaring above the Douro river as the northern Portugal city of Porto, gears up to celebrate Saint John feast, Monday ...

People rest their plastic hammers on a wall while watching flying lanterns soaring above the Douro river as the northern Portugal city of Porto, gears up to celebrate Saint John feast, Monday ...

A Christian holiday with pagan roots, the festival of St. John the Baptist — Porto's patron saint — is celebrated with fireworks, balloons and lots of grilled sardines. An older St. John's Eve ritual ...

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by bonking friends and strangers ...

I think Pier Giorgio would be great as a patron saint of friendship; he has a lot to teach us. The way that he lived his life with his friends was, first, he had the joy.

Media Release Mangaluru, Jun 20: St Aloysius Gonzaga School, celebrated the feast of its patron, St Aloysius Gonzaga, on Friday, June 20 with devotion and joy. The celebration also marked the ...

Baseball doesn’t have an official patron saint, a holy man or woman recognized by the Catholic Church as an especially potent intercessor for a particular place, group or activity. But Pope Leo ...

VATICAN CITY – The canonization of the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation, Carlo Acutis, will take place on September 7, Pope Leo XIV announced on Friday, June 13.

St. Anthony, pray for us!St. Anthony of Padua is frequently called upon as the patron saint of lost items, but he was also the “Hammer of Heretics” who used his own life and his preaching as a great ...