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Welcome to "The Little Lourdes of Italy" — the official podcast of the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Castelpetroso, Molise.
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Episode 9 — The Architect's Dream (opens the original)
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In the summer of 1891, an engineer from Bologna gave the order to start digging into a mass of rock he had chosen himself — rock he believed would serve as both the foundation and the building material for a church on a mountainside in Molise. The picks went in. The rock wasn't there. In this episode, Danny tells the story of Francesco Gualandi, the architect who designed the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in a radial neogothic plan unlike any parish church of its time — seven chapels reaching ou
Episode 8 — September 28, 1890 (opens the original)
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On the morning of September 28th, 1890, a mountain path in Molise that normally saw shepherds and a few pilgrims filled with somewhere between thirty and forty thousand people. They had come to watch a bishop bless a stone. In this episode, Danny tells the story of the day the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows stopped being a hope and became a building site. Bishop Francesco Macarone Palmieri had chosen the date himself — the feast of the Sorrows of Mary, pushed to the fourth Sunday of September tha
Episode 7 — The Bolognese Gentleman (opens the original)
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October 1888. In a country villa outside Bologna, a twelve-year-old boy is fighting for his life — and his father, a Catholic publisher who had never even heard of Castelpetroso two months earlier, is about to test his own skepticism against a bottle of water from Molise.In this episode, Danny tells the story of Carlo Acquaderni, founder of the Bologna newspaper "Il Servo di Maria," and his son Augusto — from the illness that brought a father to his knees, to the vow made before Our Lady of Sorr
Episode 6 — Rome is watching (opens the original)
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Episode 6 – Rome Is Watching When news of the Marian apparitions of Castelpetroso reached Rome in 1888, everything changed. What began as the testimony of two humble women in a small Italian village soon attracted the attention of Pope Leo XIII and the Vatican. In this episode of The Little Lourdes of Italy , Danny Cicchino tells the remarkable story of the Church's investigation into the apparitions of Our Lady of Sorrows. Discover how Bishop Francesco Macarone-Palmieri personally reported the
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