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Third Sunday in July
Regina Pacis, Boves, Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy
In 1913, at the age of 30, Agostino Pellegrino became parish priest of the Fontanelle district in the northwestern Italian town of Boves. After World War I, he decided to build a great shrine to the Queen of Peace, a title which Pope Benedict XV had just added to the Litany of Loreto in 1917. Don Pellegrino raised money and acquired land not far from his church, but in 1923 the nearly-completed building collapsed. In 1924, construction began anew, and the neobaroque Regina Pacis Sanctuary was dedicated in 1928. On July 16, 1939, Cardinal Maurilio Fossati, Archbishop of Turin, solemnly crowned the statue of the Queen of Peace. Fontanelle celebrates its feast day in honor of Regina Pacis on the third Sunday in July.
Picture and information from Giovanni Gallotti, "La Regina Pacis di Fontanelle," Mater Misericordiae No. 3/2007, www.santuariosavona.eu/files/_bollettini/2007_3.pdf
Since this is the Sunday nearest the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16, many communities celebrate the Madonna del Carmine or related devotions on this day.
 | Mary, Queen of All Hearts, Lestock, Saskatchewan, Canada. Shrine pilgrimage. |
| Maria vom Berge Karmel, Markt Rettenbach, Unterallgäu, Bavaria, Germany, Mussenhausen district (Mary of Mount Carmel). Patronal feast of baroque church. |
| Madonna del Carmine, Mezzano, Trento, Trento-Alto Adige, Italy. Festa: procession, music, food. |
| Madonna del Carmine, Cavaion Veronese, Verona, Veneto, Italy. Festa, wine fair. |
| Madonna del Carmine, Saccagnana, Cavallino-Treporti, Venezia, Veneto, Italy. Procession, mass, food. |
| Madonna degli Angeli, Sant'Elpidio a Mare, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy. Festa, mass. |
| Madonna del Carmine, Elini, Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. Festa. |
| Maria Santissima del Soccorso, Lamezia Terme, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy, Magolà neighborhood, Nicastro town (Most Holy Mary of Aid). Festa. |
| Madonna tad-Duttrina, Tarxien, Malta (Our Lady of the Doctrine). Secondary feast of Annunciation Parish. |
| Nossa Senhora da Guia, Castanheiro, Carrazeda de Ansiães, Bragança, Douro, Norte, Portugal, Foz Tua district (date may vary) |
| Nossa Senhora das Dores, Paredes de Coura, Viana do Castelo, Norte, Portugal, Romarigães district (Our Lady of Sorrows). Festa. |