Traditionally, the Virgin appears to the humblest ones, and this event makes no exception: in fact, a farmer from the small village of Sambusita, in Serina Valley, witnessed the miracle.
The Virgin asked him to build a church and performed a miracle to show the exact place where she wanted it to be: she made an olive twig sprouting from a beech branch. The event became so popular that the people built three churches over one hundred years! Just like a coffer, the first chapel houses the reliquary with the beech branch with the olive tree twig, hidden by a marble slab underneath the altar. The second church was almost totally destroyed and is currently a place of passage between the chapel and the third church, called “superior”, which is the one that is currently hosting the believers.
Traditionally, the Virgin appears to the humblest ones, and this event makes no exception: in fact, a farmer from the small village of Sambusita, in Serina Valley, witnessed the miracle.
The Virgin asked him to build a church and performed a miracle to show the exact place where she wanted it to be: she made an olive twig sprouting from a beech branch. The event became so popular that the people built three churches over one hundred years! Just like a coffer, the first chapel houses the reliquary with the beech branch with the olive tree twig, hidden by a marble slab underneath the altar. The second church was almost totally destroyed and is currently a place of passage between the chapel and the third church, called “superior”, which is the one that is currently hosting the believers.
