Shrine Of Our Lady Of Europe (Italy)
The Shrine of Our Lady of Europe ( Lombard: ''Santüari de la Madòna d'Europa''; it, Santuario di Nostra Signora d'Europa) is a Roman Catholic shrine at Campodolcino, Lombardy, Italy. It is devoted to Our Lady of Europe ( Lombard: ''Madòna d'Europa''; it, Madonna d'Europa) and is currently the headquarters of the European Ecumenical Centre for Peace. History During the late 1950s, Catholic sectors felt that the Europeist movements would need a Catholic dimension and thought of placing Europe under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, they were unaware that such a devotion was already in existence, albeit at a local level, in the British territory of Gibraltar (where the original Shrine devoted to Our Lady still exists to this day) and to a lesser extent in some neighbouring locations in Spain. The movement, supported by the Archbishop of Milan, decided to place a statue in the region of the Italian Alps, which marks the hydrological centre of Europe, since ...
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Our Lady Of Europe Into The Fog
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