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SANTUARIO DELLA MADONNA DI RE

At the end of the Valle Vigezzo, a few kilometers before the Swiss border, is Re, a place that owes its importance to the “miracle of the blood’, which took place in 1494, certified by the Podesta of the area and by the Church. The blood that gushed from the forehead of an effigy of the Madonna was collected and stored and, in 1894, for the 400th anniversary of the miracle, the Sanctuary was built to house the “Madonna del Sangue” and the holy reliquaries kept in a tabernacle in the back of the altar. The hundreds of ex- voto that carpet the walls of the Basilica testify to the people’s great devotion. The celebration of the miracle takes place every year from the 29th of April to the 1st of May, with a pilgrimage, on foot, starting off from Domodossola.

Address 
Via Locarno 4
28856 Re VB
Italy
Telephone 
+39 0324 97016

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