The small Madonna of the Star Shrine is located near the Lake of Canterno and was erected in 1695.
In 1772 it was destroyed by a flood and rebuilt two years later adorning it with a fresco that came from an old church on the mountain of Porciano.
According to tradition, the church is built on the spot where a pious spinster of Fiuggi, Felicia Colarossi, saw the Madonna appear in 1690 and where Antonio da Alatri heard a voice.
His cow was drowning, and the voice said to him, "He commands in the name of Mary, who takes away all danger." Antonio obeyed the voice and the beast was saved.
The name comes from another episode that happened to the shepherd Sebastiano Ambrosi of Fiuggi, who heard a celestial voice from the bush of Mount Porciano and followed the voice and found a big boulder with an image of the Madonna with the inscription "Ave Maris Stella".
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