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On the penultimate Sunday of April, Mogoro celebrates St. Antioco with fireworks, music shoes and dialectal poetry recitals in the squares.
St. Bernardino from Siena is the patron Saint of the village. Celebrations to his honour are held from 19th to 21st May every year. Traditionally, this festivity has a consistent participation, altough not in the same way as in the past; thanks to Pro loco important traditions have been maintained, such as horses and oxen in procession, with final awards given to the best traccas and horses.
The festivity of St. Maria di Carcaxia (Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the last weekend of August) is the second one in Mogoro due to the number of its spectators, riders and country carts. A statue of the Saint is carried in procession by yokes of oxen for about ten kilometres. On Saturday, the procession arrives to the historical small church in the area of Carcaxia, to go back to the parish church on Monday. Among various celebrations, a suggestive procession takes place among the vines of Carcaxia on Sunday morning.
In addition to religiuos festivals, there are also fairs, recitals and literature awards; the most significant ones are the Marmilla literary prize, a poetry and narrative concourse. The main event, though, is the Carpet and Craftsmanship Fair of Mogoro that, since thirty years, has made the village a reference point for operators in this sector and for the general public, too.
In April 1604, a Eucharistic miracle occurred in Mogoro, as the historian Pietro M. Cossu reported: hosts dropped from two unworthy parishioners’ mouths. To remember such a prodigious event, a solemn procession takes place in the village on the Sunday following Easter Sunday.
