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…
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…
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…
Improbable as it is for snow to fall during August, history tells of a snowfall that seemed more impossible, namely in Rome, Italy. August 5,…
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…
Our Lady of Ransom appeared to Saint Raimund, of the order of Saint Dominic, on this day, August 1st in the year 1218, and also…
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…
