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Santuario Madonna del Pianto in Sant’Agostino
(Foligno, Italy)
At Foligno is venerated wooden statue of the seventeenth century, representing the Madonna of the Tears , of this statue we have news from 1647 . It is kept in the current sanctuary in the church of St. Augustine, after the original Shrine of Our Lady of Tears was destroyed during the disastrous bombing of the allies in 1944 on the city.
Since the seventeenth century is the great devotion of the citizens for the image of the Madonna, and even today the festival is celebrated on the Sunday before the feast of St. Anthony Abbot in the month of January .
On the evening of 14 January 1703 during the celebrations of the Feast of Our Lady of Tears, the city was hit by an earthquake that affected the whole violent center Italy , the Foligno, who escaped a violent earthquake, spontaneously took the statue in procession for the first time January 28 this year, a sign of gratitude and devotion.
The growing devotion led in 1713 to the decision by the Chapter to crown the sacred image with a golden crown. From that moment on, every time that some serious disaster threatening the city, the statue was shown for worship or transferred in the Cathedral.
It reminds one of the most illustrious devotees also the ' Archbishop of Spoleto Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti , who later became Pope Pius IX , who wanted to decorate the niche of the previous shrine where the Virgin Mary was preserved.
The statue is hidden throughout the year from a painting on canvas by artist Foligno Matilde Galligari Mattoli traced back to the late fifties / early sixties of the twentieth century , depicting the image of the Madonna herself. This framework covers the niche above the ' altar of the shrine where the statue. On the feast day of Our Lady of Tears is lowered down during the first morning Mass to allow viewing of the sacred statue, only to be traced back to his place at the end of the last afternoon Mass celebrated by the Bishop, to cover up the venerated image the following year.
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