Southern Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes (festa dei sette pesci in Italian), also known as La Vigilia (Italian for the vigil). It is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. Some Italian families have been known to celebrate with 9, 11 or 13 different seafood dishes. This celebration is a commemoration of the wait, Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus.

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  • Southern Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes (festa dei sette pesci in Italian), also known as La Vigilia (Italian for the vigil). It is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. Some Italian families have been known to celebrate with 9, 11 or 13 different seafood dishes. This celebration is a commemoration of the wait, Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus.
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  • Southern Italians around the world celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes (festa dei sette pesci in Italian), also known as La Vigilia (Italian for the vigil). It is a meal that typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. Some Italian families have been known to celebrate with 9, 11 or 13 different seafood dishes. This celebration is a commemoration of the wait, Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus.
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  • Feast of the seven fishes
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