Barbana (Italy)
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| Geographical location | 45 ° 42 ' N , 13 ° 25' E | |
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Barbana is a small island in the Grado lagoon in Friuli in northern Italy . On the island there is a monastery of the Franciscan Order and the St. Mary's Church Santuario di Barbana , whose origins can be traced back to a church building from the 6th century and which every year on the first Sunday in July becomes the scene of a procession, the Perdon de Barbana . The island was named after the hermit Barbanus, who lived on the island in the 6th century and gathered a group of friars around him.
history
The island of Barbana was originally connected to the mainland. In the area of today's island there was probably a sanctuary of Apollo at the time of the Romans .
According to legend, the origins of the island and today's Marian pilgrimage church go back to the year 582. This year a storm surge hit the area around Grado and initiated the increasing island formation. During the storm, a statue of the Virgin Mary was washed ashore near the huts of the hermits Barbanus and Tarilessus. Thanks to the fact that the storm had largely spared the city of Grado, the Patriarch of Aquileia , Elia , had a church built. Barbanus gathered a group of monks around him, whose successors took care of the sanctuary in the centuries that followed.
It is not known by when the island formation was complete. However, Barbana was referred to as an island as early as 734.
While the church building was repeatedly destroyed by floods, the original Madonna statue was lost. In the 11th century, a new, wooden figure of the black Madonna was finally installed, which is now kept in a small chapel on Barbana. Benedictine monks inhabited the island from the 11th century , which were replaced by Franciscans from 1450 . In 1738 the Franciscan Order built the present pilgrimage church, which was completely rebuilt and enlarged in 1911.
Since Grado was an Austrian seaside resort, it has been possible to visit the island in the summer months. Today (as of 2018) the island can be visited all year round, but only on Sundays and public holidays in winter. The excursion boats go from Grado to Barbana.
literature
- Antonio Paolucci, Elisabetta Sampietro: Cattedrali e basiliche in Italia. G. Mondadori, 1998, ISBN 9788837415822 , p. 225
Web links
- Madonna di Barbana. - Summary of key data ( online on beniculturali.it, Italian), accessed on July 14, 2015.
- Santuario di Barbana - Casa di Esercizi - Casa del Pellegrino. - History of the sanctuary on the island of Barbana ( online on sanfrancescopatronoditalia.it, Italian).
- The Madonna on the Island. Professor Rudolf Grulich on Barbana in the Grado lagoon. ( online at kirche-in-not.de).
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurkommission von Grado (Ed.): Seebad and Kurort Grado in the Austrian coastal region 1914. Buchdruckerei Seitz, Görz 1914, p. 27.
- ^ Kurkommission von Grado (Ed.): Seebad and Kurort Grado in the Austrian coastal region 1914. Buchdruckerei Seitz, Görz 1914, p. 26.
- ^ Isola di Barbana - Laguna di Grado (GO). Retrieved October 24, 2018 (Italian).