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anniversaries october
Fourth Sunday in October
Madonna delle Grazie, Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
When Sir John Emo was serving as
Venetian ambassador to Constantinople, Sultan Mohammed II gave him a
Byzantine-style icon of the Virgin nursing the
Child. In 1479, Sir Emo became Lieutenant of Udine, a city in northeast
Italy then under the Republic of Venice, bringing the icon with him to the
governor's castle. Not long afterward, one of the
palace cooks nearly lost a hand in the kitchen, but it healed when
touched to the image. News of
the miracle inspired popular devotion, so
Sir Emo decided to move the image to the Church of Sts. Gervais and
Protasius, where it entered in procession September 8, 1479. By 1495, the
church was too small for all the pilgrims, and a new one was begun,
consecrated to Our Lady of Graces May 12, 1520 and run
by the Servants of Mary. On
September 6, 1870 the Catholic Church crowned the
icon; in 1922, it named the shrine a Minor
Basilica. On the fourth Sunday of October, the city both
fulfills and renews a vow made during the plague of 1555. The Madonna delle
Grazie is also credited with saving the
region from the plague of 1599,
the cholera of 1836, and the bombardment of
1944.
Sources:
 | the Basilica's website,
www.bvgrazie.it. |
| "Udine (UD) - Madonna delle Grazie," Filiconia
Mariana, immaginettemariane.blogspot.com/2016/05/madonna-delle-grazie-di-udine.html |
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Also commemorated this date:
| Madonna del Santo Rosario, Spino al Brembo,
Zogno, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy. Festa. |
| Madonna del Perello, Selvino, Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy, shrine on Mount
Perello. Pilgrimage of surrounding parishes. |
| Madonna della Purità, Soveria Mannelli, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. Festa. |
| Virgen del Rosario, Huaraz, Huaraz, Peru. Fiesta of
Mama Llusha in the Nicrupampa
district. |
| Virgen de Cuatrovitas, Bollullos de la Mitación,
Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain (Virgin of Four Lives).
Romería: statue processes by oxcart to rural shrine to stay until
July 25. |
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