The small church of the Madonna del Passo is located along the Sublacense Road just below the town of Agosta and near a spring. Its construction is linked to a miracle of 1615 and its original name was of Madonna of the angels to remember their help in healing Elisabetta di Andrea.
The woman was possessed by evil spirits and the exorcist was performed by a priest originally from Trevi nel Lazio and since then the church has been dedicated to the healing of the possessed.
The church looks like a simple plastered gabled building, with two openings on the sides of the entrance door and a large cross made of stones.
The interior has a unique room, with a wooden roof, and ends with a large Baroque style altar and a fresco of the Madonna and Child. The image is said to have been found and dates back to the 13th century.
The Madonna del passo is celebrated with a festival that has been repeated since 1700 in which the statue of the Madonna is carried in procession on the evening of 7 September and during the day of 8 September.
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