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New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real?

New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real? In the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Bella arrives in Volterra, Italy just in time to save Edward from revealing himself as a vampire to a throng of mortals at the St. Marcus Day festival on March 19th. Attendees of the festival, clad in red, hooded robes, march in procession bearing a statue of St. Marcus to the church in the center of town. In the Twilight world, "St. Marcus" is celebrated by mortals for having rid the town of vampires when he was, in fact, a vampire himself. Volterra is the home of the Volturri, the lawgivers of the vampire world. Marcus is one of them. Some Twilight fans wear red on March 19th to mark this holiday. New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real? New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real? New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real? New Moon's St Marcus Day-Is It Real? New Moon author Stephanie Meyer borrowed the fictional St. Marcus Day from the real European celebratio...