Sanctuary of the Madonna della Bocciola

The church

The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Bocciola is located in Vacciago, a district of the municipality of Ameno , in the province of Novara in Italy . The sanctuary is a reminder of what the Catholic Church sees as a miracle : the apparition of Mary to a shepherd girl named Giulia Manfredi in 1543.

Photo by Paolo Monti

According to religious legend, through the mediation of the seer, the Madonna promised tokens of favor from heaven if the inhabitants of this village on the east bank of Lake Orta would devote themselves to prayer on Saturday afternoon and abstain from work in preparation for Sunday. The pilgrimage site gradually grew and was given its current form in the classicistic style by 1875.

The painting (1822–1824) was done by Agostino Comerio (1774–1834).

Web links

Website of the Sanctuary in Italian
Brief overview of the pilgrimage church in German

Individual evidence

↑ Fernando Mazzocca: Comerio, Agostino . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . tape 27 . Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Rome 1982 (Italian, treccani.it - listing the 32 or so frescoes in this church).

45.794886 8.427601Coordinates: 45 ° 47 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 39.4 ″ E

[1] Fernando Mazzocca: Comerio, Agostino . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani . tape 27 . Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, Rome 1982 (Italian, treccani.it - listing the 32 or so frescoes in this church).