Festival of miracles until May 26th in Brescia.
The Festival of Miracles will be held in Brescia until May 26th
The festival of miracles, now in its fifth edition, kicked off on Sunday 19 May and will continue until Sunday 26 May 2024. The Sanctuary of Miracles, located in Corso Martiri della Libertà since the end of 1500 at the behest of Pope Innocent VIII at the request of the Municipality of Brescia, is the first civic sanctuary in the city. For some years now the Collegiate Parish of Ss. Nazaro e Celso which, since the foundation of the sanctuary has been responsible for the management of the Marian temple, in collaboration with the Municipal administration of Brescia, has organized the Feast in the month of May, for four editions to Miracles.
This event, despite having a strong religious connotation due to the strong attendance of the sanctuary, takes on a strongly social, cultural and aggregative value because it involves the neighbourhood, families, children, young people from the oratory, traders in the area, and various institutions that they inhabit the territory.
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The absolute novelty that gave prominence to the initiative was the involvement of the Madonnari (in the last 2022 edition there were forty, this year there will be thirty). From the late evening of Saturday 25 May, and lasting all night long, special protagonists and artists of Corso Martiri della Libertà will be setting up paintings that will represent the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Corso Martiri will have to be free from cars, we thank you in advance the residents for their collaboration and Brescia Mobilità which gave the possibility to park for free in other spaces. On the occasion of the 2024 edition of the Festival of Miracles, the work will also be presented to citizens “Coronation of the Virgin with Saints Michael the Archangel, Joseph, Francis and Nicholas” del Moretto, preserved in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso and returned to its ancient magnificence thanks to the recently completed restoration.
Changes to traffic
On the occasion of the Feast of Miracles 2024, the Santa Croce district will undergo a change in traffic: from 4pm on Saturday 25 May to midnight on Sunday 26 May it will be passable in a south-north direction, from Via Moretto to Corso Palestro.
