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The Holy Spirit's Sanctuary
The Holy Spirit's Sanctuary  
(History - legend)

The origin of the sanctuary is very ancient. A shrine entitled to the Holy Spirit, in which, for the legend, a big stone was placed in which someone had painted the image of the Eternal Father with a dove on his chest. During the iconoclast fight, this painting came buried underground and for long time it remained ignored, since a deaf-mute peasant, digging a sink, had found again the big stone. He noticed the figure with surprise and noticed that some drops of blood dripped from a lesion in its eyebrow. Astonished for the discovery, he run towards the town, leaving amazed the countrymen who heard he was speaking. Then they went to the place and for the parish priest's council and the authorities they decided to transport the big stone to the town by the oxen, but the animals did not succeed in move it. So people thought to erect a temple on this place with the aid of all the people. Soon it became a devotion place and of pilgrimage and still today a participated festivity is celebrated, the day after the festivity of Pentecost. Currently the sanctuary introduces three incomes of which one central wider than the others, with a wood portal gracefully carved, a local craftsman's work, Giuseppe Domina, on the design of the Ing. Antonio Milletaŕ.


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