The earnest celebrations in honor of St. Anthony of Padua, organized by the Parrocchia della Natività di Beata Maria Vergine and by the Comitato Festa Patronale, provide a full program of events which, like every year, ends on the date that the calendar indicates as the feast day of the Saint himself. The Intense religious program starts on June 1 with the Tredicina in honor of the patron saint during which the holy masses in the Chiesa Madre, from 7.30 to 19.00, are celebrated; in the afternoon of 13 June, there is the solemn procession that traverses slowly through the town. The saint’s sacred image, followed by a procession of the faithful, stops in front of the City Hall for the consigning of keys and the consecration of the city of Ruffano to the Patron, and finally returning into the Chiesa Madre for the traditional kissing of the relic. Another aim of the faithful in coming to the church is to see the canvas depicting St. Anthony during the famous miracle of the mule, of the Ruffanese painter Saverio Lillo (1734-1796).