's so small, the Madonna of Ash (the Queen of the Garda, who is venerated at the shrine of Peschiera Franciscan): yes and no high six inches. E 'of wood, with a tiny silver crown, and has all the signs of aging.
appeared on an ash tree in 1510, a farmer who was about to kill a snake, and invoked the Virgin Mary - was saved, and the snake disappeared (the story seems too simple to be true ...) . Brought to the church, he returned alone on the ash, and there still is, in a side chapel of the sanctuary that was built around.
's so small, the image of the Queen of the Garda, but has an immense force: there are always people praying in front of her, and dozens of candles are lit each day in a room adjacent to chapel.
hard to find traces on the Internet, no mystery has been the subject of a talk-show - nothing apocalyptic secrets, no miracles futuristic. Yet, the cloisters are filled with ex-voto and photographs - common miracles of ordinary people: a man crushed by a tractor while working, that you saved, and another who survived a car accident, and brought the photo of his battered car, since a child has finally arrived ...
In the first cloister, there is always a small crowd of people, tidy and polite: they are waiting to enter the room where the door is written "Blessings", where a lay brother, blessed rosaries, pictures, children , couples, individuals and entire families, the brothers always smile and greet, and stop to chat with anyone - and everyone has something to tell, diseases, births, deaths, work balance, social concerns, family disputes, inheritance disputes, real joy and suffering equally true that the brothers listened with real interest (the graves of their brothers are in a courtyard next to the church on the right of the facade, and are always full of flowers, particularly the most recent).
I also kneel in front of the tiny Queen of Garda strength is undoubtedly its weakness, its history, so simple, is in truth much more than a treatise on dogmatic theology, and life is real her, and his profile in the niche of ash much more than centenary, it helps to distinguish accurately between what is and what not. It 's the first of our needs.
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