According to tradition, in the year 358, a wealthy Roman couple without children asked the Virgin Mary to show them how to dedicate their inheritance to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That night, the Virgin appeared to the couple and Pope Liberius in a dream. She told them to build a church wherever snow would fall. On August 5th, a miraculous snowfall covered the Esquiline Hill in Rome, the site where one of the four major basilicas now stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, every August 5th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows is celebrated here with a solemn Mass and a reenactment of the miraculous snowfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A shower of white petals falls from the top of the basilica, recalling how, in the middle of Rome\u2019s hot summer, a great snowfall occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many tourists witness it for the first time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I didn\u00b4t know about the history of the Bascilica and I'm feeling something different because it\u00b4s a history, a beautiful history. With the snow. It\u00b4s the place when the Virgin Mary manifested.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It's a story that renews the faith of many, and each year it brings back the white petals to represent the snow that the Virgin sent as a miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BAM According to tradition, in the year 358, a wealthy Roman couple without children asked the Virgin Mary to show them how to dedicate their inheritance to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":79682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pk-WBK0vHpY","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnevicatasantamariamaggioreeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bnevicatasantamariamaggioreint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79687,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79685\/revisions\/79687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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