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Santuario della Beata Vergine del Piratello

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Location	:	Imola, Città Metropolitana di Bologna, Italy
Description	:	On Holy Thursday of 1483, a solitary pilgrim named Stephano Manganelli from Cremona was making his way toward the Marian shrine in Loreto, hoping to arrive in time for Easter. The devout man stopped at every image of Mary gracing the Via Emilia, never failing to light a candle to the Madonna. It had been an unusually severe winter, and although the calendar had reached the spring equinox, the weather remained cold. That Thursday, Manganelli arrived three miles from Imola to a locality called Piratello. At the intersection of a small secondary road he saw a rough stone pillar with... Read More	On Holy Thursday of 1483, a solitary pilgrim named Stephano Manganelli from Cremona was making his way toward the Marian shrine in Loreto, hoping to arrive in time for Easter. The devout man stopped at every image of Mary gracing the Via Emilia, never failing to light a candle to the Madonna. It had been an unusually severe winter, and although the calendar had reached the spring equinox, the weather remained cold. That Thursday, Manganelli arrived three miles from Imola to a locality called Piratello. At the intersection of a small secondary road he saw a rough stone pillar with a niche carved into it. Nestled within this humble setting was a fresco of the Madonna and Child. The pilgrim retrieved a small candle from his sack and lit it, but when he reached to place his offering on a stone ledge of the niche his hand slipped and the candle went out. As Manganelli lighted it, the flame returned as if lit by itself. At that moment, the startled pilgrim heard a sweet voice carried on the chilly Romagnol wind. It said, "I am the Immaculate Virgin Mary." Falling to his knees, he asked the Mother of God how he could serve her. She ordered him to go to the next town and tell the people to build her a shrine at Piratello. "If they don't believe you," the voice continued, "show them this." Stephano Manganelli's cape filled with roses, a flower unobtainable in the freezing Romagnol spring." The news of the apparition caused much joy and excitement among the faithful, who instantly turned the site of the apparition into a place of pilgrimage. The construction of the church began in 1491, through the generous donations of Caterina Riario Sforza and was left under the care of the Third Order of St. Francis. Blessed Geremia Lambertenghi of the same Order, took care of most of the work during the twenty years he spent on location. The Third Order Regular Franciscans, who were entrusted with the adjacent Sanctuary of Our Lady of Piratello since its construction, were expelled during the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy; their monastery was suppressed and its cloisters also converted into as cemetery, which across the years evolved into the present Cemetery of Imola in the nearby lands. The TOR Franciscans only returned to the Sanctuary in 1943. The Church of Our Lady of Piratello was declared a minor basilica in 1954. Blessed John Paul II visited it on September 5, 1986. The image is carried annually in procession, by the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, on March 27, feast day of the Madonna of Piratello.

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