The feast day of Saint Patricia is celebrated every year in Naples on this day.
The saint, who is also sometimes referred to as Patricia of Constantinople, is one of a long list of patron saints of Naples.
She is less well known than San Gennaro, also a patron saint of the city, who attracts crowds to Naples Cathedral three times a year to witness the miracle of a small sample of his blood turning to liquid.
But Saint Patricia’s blood, which is kept in the Church of San Gregorio Armeno, is said to undergo the same miraculous transformation every Tuesday morning as well as on August 25 each year – her feast day – which was believed to be the day she died in 665 AD.
Saint Patricia was a noble woman, who may have been descended from St Constantine the Great.
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