The third Sundays of October in Sipicciano, municipal fraction of Graffignano, is celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy with solemn religious ceremonies and torchlight processions. The effigy of the Madonna is found in the parish church of Sipicciano.
The sanctuary, together with the Madonna del Nespolo and the Madonna dell'Aiuto at the Rigo stream, is one of the vertices of a triangle of Marian sanctuaries in the Tiber area.
The sanctuary was built in this area, where once there was a castle of which only some foundations remain, thanks to a miraculous event.
In fact, a farmer had found an image of the Madonna near an oak tree. He had tried to bring it back to the town 3 times but the image inexplicably returned to its place.
At one point the lady appeared to a girl saying that a shrine would have to be built in the place where it would snow in August.
And so it happened, it snowed, and immediately the sanctuary became a destination for many pilgrimages. It should be noted that in order to build the church the oak where the painting had appeared was knocked down and that a stream began to flow from it.
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