Our Lady of the Basin

Brescia, Italy (1080)

Inspired by his great love of Mary, St. Constantius decided to erect a church in Her honor.

While looking at materials with some carpenters, Costanzo saw a white dove reappear, calmly, repeatedly taking in its beak a chip of wood in the air and transporting it to the Mount. He curiously followed it, and came into the town of Conche, where he realized that the dove had arranged the chips so as to trace the perimeter of a building. Looking up, Costanzo saw a Lady with the Child in her arms, lifted up on the perimeter marked by the dove.

Therefore he built the church in that place as proof of his conversion and his love for the Virgin.

 

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Source: "365 Days with Mary" by Michael O'Neill 

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