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Madonna d'Erbia, Casnigo (BG), Italy
Commemorated on August 5
Historical Highlights
Casnigo is a country of ancient origin, as evidenced by the first written document concerning him which dates from the year 905. The town of Casnigo rises to 514 meters above sea level, on a plateau overlooking a long stretch of the orographic left side of the river Serio, about 23 kilometers from Bergamo. The name "Agher" (from "ager" the Latin word for field campaign), with which the inhabitants still call the plain, an alluvial deposit that was once intensively cultivated for its fertility, seems to reinforce the most popular version about the origins of the country.
In the second century BC, the Romans started to penetrate into the Orobian and subsequently established a military garrison areas Vertova-Casnigo to protect the mining of high Seriana. From one of these camps, in all probability, took origin the first settlement that would later become the town of Casnigo. In 1991, sull'Agher, a few hundred meters from the town, even prehistoric remains have been found (presumably iron age) who would go back, then, the first human settlements on the plateau to a more distant past.
The Apparition of Our Lady
At the top of Mount Erbia, about 4 km from the village, stands a small shrine of the Madonna of "Erbia not far from the sanctuary of the Trinity. On this hill there was already a church built after a miraculous intervention occurred August 5, 1550. According to tradition, at the farm of a farmer, he was a much venerated depicting the Madonna Of The Nativity. To access the image the many pilgrims passed through the surrounding fields treading on the grass. Farmer, infastiditosi slashed strokes hoe the painting that, during the night, magically reappeared.
A Carlo Lanfranchi, friend of Louis, he invited them to accompany him on Mount Erbia to bring food to the hens that had there, locked in a farmhouse. Accompanied his friend, Louis went to the barn owned by his father, not far away, and found the barn locked. Suddenly there was a great storm of frightening proportions and Luigi, scared, and for protection from the wind and rain took refuge under the porch of the church of Our Lady dell'Erbia. It was the evening of August 6, 1839.
The child, curled up in the right corner of the porch, continued to cry and complain when suddenly he heard a loud crash hatch with double doors of the small church and saw it come out of the Madonna, dressed in white and red, with in arm a Bimbo, who told him:
"Do not be afraid or Luigi, come with me I will put you to sleep, and quiet that is between half an hour will be your father."
At the request of Louis who wanted to know where it would lead, Mary replied:
"Here on the barn, that although I will open locked."
And so saying, he took him by the hand and led him to the door of the barn that hatched from him. Once inside the Madonna took the hay and made a bed, then left a bread to the child, telling him to be quiet and not to be afraid and then disappeared. Luigi ate the bread and then fell asleep, waking up later when he heard his father's voice calling him by name. The barn was locked, and the man, together with a friend, had to work hard to enter: he found the child with even a piece of bread in his hand.
On this fact gave rise to the tradition of distributing the demands of small loaves with the imprint of the Virgin dell'Erbia which are then consumed by those who are sick. In 1867, after the violent outbreak of an epidemic of smallpox, he vowed to expand the church and was so small that the temple was transformed into a sanctuary between 1877 and 1881 and these further enlarged in the years 1927-28.
Approval
The feast is celebrated on August 5, but the increased flow of people and pilgrims has the following Sunday during which we celebrate the solemn ceremonies.
In 1873 the bishop of Bergamo, Mgr. Pierluigi Hope, ordered an investigation into the facts, which ended October 12 of the same year with a notarized document certifying that the prodigy.