o Acireale the saints are celebrated he/she solemnly Reveres and Sebastiano.
To the first one, patron saint of the city, lived in the II sec. the Acesis devote the celebrations, for climatic reasons, on July 26, rather than on November 20.
The seventeenth-century silver sedan of the Saint in procession is brought for the city streets, accompanied by the Cannalores, tall carved woods and decorated brought to shoulder by the representatives of the ancient guilds of arts and works.
But the principal religious event of the city is the Party of St. Sebastiano, the warrior Roman made martyr from Diocleziano which power is attributed to protect the populations from the epidemic of the plague. In fact, the ancient ones believed that God cast from the Sky the darts of the plague to punish the men, and, since Sebastiano, succeeded in surviving to the torture of the arrows, he believed that he knew how to defeat with his/her prayers the terrible illness.
On January 20, on the silver sedan, the statue of the beautiful and young Saint is brought to shoulder by the devotes crossing a long and fatiguing itinerary to make reentry in its beautiful abode toward midnight.