The image of the “Our Lady of Life” placed on the high altar has been variously attributed to the hand of Simone dei Crocifissi (documented…
In April 1579 some workers tearing down a barn wall heard a voice asking them not to hurt the child; astonished, they worked carefully, and…
The story goes that in 1144, a boy found his calf kneeling before an unusual iron cross, apparently just unearthed. The Madonna appeared, asking for…
Rossano, a town in the province of Cosenza, is proud to have an acheiropoieta image of the Virgin, where devotion for the same has existed…
Around 1547 the Virgin appeared to Leonardo Weißensteiner (Weissensteiner), a pious and righteous local peasant who owns a large farm called Weissenstein, in the locality…
A pious legend has it that Our Lady of Canneto appeared, in the so-called “Capodacqua” area, to a shepherdess named Silvana. The girl was all…
There is a sanctuary of the Madonna on the Bergamo Road, about a mile away from the city of Crema, Italy. The structure is a…
The cult of Our Lady of the Chain begun in the year 1392 in Palermo, when King Martin I the Younger reigned in Sicily. Three…
In the first years of the second millennium, an abbey of Benedictine nuns arose on the hill of Belmonte, 2,000 feet above the town of…
This Madonna is venerated in a chapel of the sanctuary or shrine of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Santuario dell’ Annunziata) in Trapani, Sicily, some…
The historical origin of the Madonna of Canoscio is shrouded in mystery. An ancient folk tradition tells us that in the year 1348, a certain…
A Brief History: In the year of our Lord 1518, a few scattered houses broke the monotony of the Ruta valley, which was partly cultivated…
The sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of Graces (Beata Vergine delle Grazie) stands along the Via Persicetana, built towards the mid-thirteenth century as a road…
According to local history, in the year 1417, a painter named Feliciano Batone painted a fresco of our Lady of Sorrows in a small votive…
It is the highest Marian shrine in the world (3538 m.) The Chapel of Rocciamelone In the eighteenth century the chapel carved into the rock…
Local tradition holds that angels frescoed the image of the Madonna, Ladder to Paradise, on a rock wall in the countryside before St. Corrado di…
The beginning of the devotion is linked to an episode that occurred in the middle of the fifteenth century; it was an Easter Monday, the…
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Oak (Rovere) occupies the remains of an ancient oak grove sacred to Diana. The church was dedicated to…
The story goes that in 1672 the Blessed Virgin told a shepherd boy that she wished to be venerated at a certain place in the…
The image was very revered and carried the strange name “of the Standard” because the standards of weights and measures were kept close by. In…
During a heat wave and drought, on July 23, 1496, Quinto Foglia and his two little boys were walking from their home in Vall’Alta to…
July 22, 1796: Beginning of the prodigious movement of the eyes of Our Lady Advocate. The beautiful image of the Virgin in prayer, the work…
“The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Civita in the territory of Itri, of the Archdiocese of Gaeta, is the oldest Marian temple in the world…
In 1509, the house of a certain Giovanni Borezzo was destroyed by a storm; only a statue made of olive wood of the Madonna with…
