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PRESS RELEASE (7/3/2014)
Saturday, March 8, a Loano, in the Church of St. Augustine will kick off the Revellian Triennium with the celebration of the Franciscan Madonna of the Capuchins.
The triennium celebrates March 8, 2014 the 150th anniversary Of the prodigies of the statue of the Immaculata at Loano. L’March 11, 2015 will be remembered on the 160th anniversary of the prodigies of the statue of the Miraculous Madonna of Taggia, and finally, 2016 will mark the 200 years from the birth in Taggia of Salvatore Revelli the sculptor who made the two statues.
The history of the two statues was reported in the volume “The Mystery of the Two Sister Statues”, which recounts the events that took place in the two towns on the Ligurian coast, some 65 kilometers apart. Over a period of nine years-between 1855 (Taggia) and 1864 (Loano)-the two towns were at the center of miraculous events that were not repeated in 1941 and 1956. The protagonists of the events are two Statues of the Immaculate Conception. The first is in the Taggia Parish Church, dedicated to Saints James and Philip, and the second in the Immaculate Conception Parish Church of the Capuchins in Loano. In 1999, the Fausto Badano Littardi, began an in-depth historical study of these events which, in 2005, led to the publication of the book entitled: “The Mystery of the Two Sister Statues.”.
The religious celebration will kick off, Saturday, March 8, to the 10:30 a.m. with the Holy Mass. In the afternoon, at 3 p.m., “the hour of Mercy and the beginning of wonders,” a children's choir concert will be held in St. Augustine's Church. At the end there will be the departure of the pilgrimage from Loano to Taggia, in the footsteps of the great sculptor Salvatore Revelli.{:}
