St George’s Feast celebrations start in Victoria this weekend, with the feast dinner and children’s events. A programme of activities, both internal and external will then get underway, leading up to the third Sunday of July, Gozo’s annual St George’s Day.

Gozo also celebrates St George on the official day, April the 23rd, commemorated all over the world, and his festive memory is kept in Gozo and Malta, as it is held in the homes and churches of the Christian East and West, in Istanbul, Canterbury and Rome, as well, very probably, as in the most distant regions of the globe.

St George’s Day is perhaps not kept in all the regions of the world in the same manner, nor does the Martyr’s memory necessarily convey a uniform religious significance. In Gozo, both April the 23rd and the third Sunday of July are primarily religious festivities although they have different, albeit complementary, emphasis.

While the April date is exclusively devotional and practically confined to internal celebrations in St George’s Basilica on the day, the July festa is spread out over several days of external festivities, cultural fare and popular entertainment.

The celebrations in Victoria are organised by St George’s Basilica.

The full programme of events for the feast, which is in Maltese, is available for download here.

Permalink: St George’s Feast celebrations start in Victoria this weekend