{"id":15769,"date":"2020-09-05T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaticano.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:39:41","slug":"madonna-of-monte-berico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaticano.com\/en\/madonna-of-monte-berico\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna of Monte Berico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La storia della <strong>Madonna<\/strong> <strong>di<\/strong> <strong>Monte<\/strong> <strong>Berico<\/strong> (che prende il nome dall\u2019omonimo colle dominante la citt\u00e0 di Vicenza) e del santuario a lei dedicato inizia nel 1400. La Madonna apparve il 7 marzo 1426 e il 1\u00b0 agosto 1428 a Vincenza Pasini, una donna che andava a portare il cibo al marito, che si trovava sul colle a lavorare. La Madonna disse a Vincenza che la <strong>peste<\/strong> sarebbe finita e richiedeva l\u2019erezione di una chiesa a suo nome. N\u00e9 i concittadini n\u00e9 il clero locale credettero alla donna quando raccont\u00f2 della prima apparizione, ma la seconda volta le sue parole riuscirono a convincerli e nel giro di pochi mesi, nel 1428, fu eretta una piccola e semplice chiesa, a cui si aggiunse un cenobio, per permettere di ospitare un comunit\u00e0 religiosa che si occupava di fornire accoglienza ai pellegrini in visita. Stando alle cronache del tempo, dopo che fu costruita la chiesa la peste scem\u00f2 davvero dalle terre vicentine.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nel corso dei secoli la chiesa fu ampliata e modificata, continuando a ricevere migliaia di fedeli devoti e fino a diventare il bellissimo santuario che oggi conosciamo, ultima aggiunta delle quali risale appena al 1971, quando fu costruita la moderna Penitenziaria. Gi\u00e0 nel 1904, fu elevata a basilica minore da Papa Pio X, e pochi anni dopo (1978) la <strong>Madonna<\/strong> <strong>di<\/strong> <strong>Monte<\/strong> <strong>Berico<\/strong> fu riconosciuta come principale <strong>patrona<\/strong> di Vicenza e della sua diocesi.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tra le opere al suo interno, spicca per valenza religiosa la \u201cStatua della Madonna\u201d, una scultura realizzata da Nicol\u00f2 da Venezia tra il 1428 e il 1430, definita iconograficamente come Madre della Misericordia o Madonna del manto. Si tratta di un statua in pietra dei Berici colorata, collocata sopra l\u2019altare maggiore e che rappresenta Maria come madre di tutti i figli di Dio, che sotto il suo mantello possono trovare la protezione cercata.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ancora oggi sono numerosissimi i <strong>pellegrini<\/strong> che si recano in visita alla Basilica di Monte Berico, per rivolgere una preghiera alla Madonna e chiedere la sua intercessione e protezione. Ad assisterli trovano i <strong>Servi<\/strong> <strong>di<\/strong> <strong>Maria<\/strong>, che da quasi sei secoli ne interpretano la vocazione all\u2019ospitalit\u00e0 e all\u2019assistenza: guidano ed assistono il pellegrino nella sua penitenza e celebrano l\u2019eucaristia purificatrice, al termine di questa toccante e sacra esperienza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La storia della Madonna di Monte Berico (che prende il nome dall\u2019omonimo colle dominante la citt\u00e0 di Vicenza) e del&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":7083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4467,1144,175],"tags":[4658,4659],"class_list":["post-15769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-sanctuaries","category-approfondimenti-en-2","category-uncategorized","tag-apparition","tag-mountain"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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