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Feast of St Helen Birkirkara in Birkirkara
The Feast of St Helen, celebrated in mid August in Birkirkara, one of Malta's largest and most populous towns, honours the town's patron saint with a statue procession, extensive decoration and a fireworks display widely regarded as among the largest and loudest on the islands. Birkirkara's scale as a town gives the feast correspondingly large crowds compared with celebrations in smaller villages.
Birkirkara ranks among Malta's largest towns by population, and that scale shapes every aspect of its patronal feast honouring St Helen, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine and venerated in Catholic tradition for her role in discovering relics of the True Cross in Jerusalem.