Today I would like to take you to the discovery of a sanctuary, little known in Italy but which has a very particular story to tell and to discover.
We are located exactly in Soave in the province of Verona, in this small medieval village there is a small sanctuary that was built in the oldest district of the village: Borgo Bassano
The current sanctuary was built and completed in 1838 to thank the Madonna for having saved the inhabitants of the village from cholera, a nasty disease that plagued the area.
There was already a small church built by the friars but it was destroyed to make room for this sanctuary.
Inside this sanctuary there is the bust of the Virgin Mary, this will tell the legend it was transported from the place where a little shepherd had an apparition.
In fact, the story is very special, a shepherd boy was looking at his sheep when a lady with a splendid light appeared to him and told him to call the parish priest of the village, he went to the parish priest but when he returned he found a statue of the Madonna and the water that it gushed out where his sheep had gone for refreshment.
So the parish priest decided to post the statue in the church.
The entrance is very beautiful with these fake Roman columns.
The church inside is not very illuminated, it is quite small, it is very simple, there are beautiful stained glass windows depicting saints and above there is a beautiful fresco by the Soavese painter mattielli who lived nearby.
In the main altar there is the statue of the Madonna, completely decorated in gold.
On the left there is another room where the donations made by the faithful who receive a grace from the Madonna are kept.
This is the fresco that I was telling you that has been restored a few years ago.
In the sanctuary the Madonna is celebrated in August each year with a procession that starts from the point of the apparition.
Thank you for reading this article, I hope I have made you discover a little-known Sanctuary to the mass but which is worth visiting.
I leave you below a video that I shot again last summer.👇
