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Basilica Shrine of the Black Madonna

Italy

Basilica Shrine of the Black Madonna

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A group of Marian shrines in a mountain bowl at 1,159 m, home to the Black Madonna, a cedar of Lebanon statue with face and hands painted black. Legend credits Saint Luke, but it was carved at the end of the 13th century.

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