June 12
Madonna del
Tamaro, Monte Tamaro, Ticino, Switzerland
Cable-car owner Egidio Cattaneo commissioned Italian sculptor Antonio
Danzi to create a bronze Madonna and Child for the resort on 6,454' Monte
Tamaro near the Italian border. On June 12, 1984, Pope John Paul II blessed
the statue during his visit to the area, and a year later a group of
Catholic youth installed the Madonna del Tamaro on the mountain. Since then,
other monuments on Monte Tamaro have somewhat eclipsed her fame: the stone chapel
of Santa Maria degli Angeli, consecrated in 1996, which Cattaneo
commissioned from architect Mario Botta in memory of his wife; the totemic
"Guardian of the Temple" sculpture by Luca Marcionelli, 2006; and Jaya
Schürch's "Suspended Cube," 2008.
Sources:
 | Information from Monte Tamaro, www.montetamaro.ch |
| Monte Tamaro brochure, clienti.tio.ch/img_articoli/20090309_140529_prospetto2009.pdf (picture) |
Also celebrated this date:
| Sainte-Vierge, Bourbon-l'Archambault, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Statue brought to St. George church, 1791. |
| Notre Dame de Toutes Grâces, Martillac, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Holy Family Contemplative Sisters (Our Lady of All Graces). Order's feast day. |
| Madonna di Montalto, Messina, Sicily, Italy. Festa. |
| Madonna del Pergamo, Gorgoglione, Matera, Basilicata, Italy (Madonna of the Pulpit). Festa; mass, procession with statue. |
| Matka Boża Trąbkowska, Trąbki Wielkie, Gdańsk, Pomerania, Poland. Pope John Paul II crowned icon, 1987. Feasts August 15 & September 8. |