Twelve days of celebrations, prayers, music, children’s games, stalls of lovely handmade foods and cheerful dinner parties in the streets: this is the programme of the 17^th Steffl-Kirtag, a feast that is held once a year in honour of Vienna’s Cathedral, the Stephansdom. The first feast, back in 2002, was organised to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the reconstruction of the cathedral after the bombing of the Second World War: the huge success in people’s turnout convinced the organisers and the archdiocese of Vienna to hold the event every year. Mgr. Toni Faber, Dompfarrer (parish priest, editor’s note) of the Stephansdom, described the twelve days that, from the Feast of the Ascension on May 10^th to the Feast of Pentecost on May 21^st, will add colour to the cathedral square, the Stephanplatz, which will show up to visitors and pilgrims in a new, refurbished guise: “In the attractive place at St Stephen’s feet, over these days, a lot of things are being offered that should delight the heart, the body, the spirit and the soul”. The only exception was in 2017, when the Kirtag was held in the court square and in the courtrooms while the Stephansplatz was being refurbished. On May 11^th, the Dompfarrer will open the Kirtag along with the Mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, and the general manager of the district of Vienna, Markus Figl. Faber pointed out that since 2002 the Kirtag has taken place in or near Pentecost, because the history of St Stephen’s Cathedral says that the “Viennese church” was consecrated on the Feast of the Holy Spirit in 1147, in tribute to the holy first martyr, by Regimbert, bishop of Passau.