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Crowned Virgin of Olmo Silver Icon #16169

This modern, beautiful silver-plated icon of Virgin of Olmo is hand-painted on a wood base with a silver-plated cover with incredible ornate gold and silver accents. The entire icon is overlaid with a beautifully finished, highly detailed repousse (high relief) gold and silver-plated metallic cover (also known as a "riza") with an attached 24-carat gold-plated halo. The riza uses a scrolled floral pattern to accent the subjects and covers the less important areas of the icon. Velvet backing.One night at the end of April, 1001, Count Ariano Irpino dreamt that he caught a copious amount of wild game while hunting in the woods of Cervaro, near present-day Foggia, and taking the dream as a good omen, he immediately set off on a journey. On the last Saturday of the month, while flushing out the game at the crack of dawn, the Count wounded a buck that managed to escape even though it was bleeding. The man pursued it and after a while found it kneeling at the base of a great oak tree. He approached to take it, but when he was under the oak, the tree was wrapped in a blinding light and by "tongues of fire" that seemed to be burning it. That very morning, Strazzacappa, a local shepherd, had also lost two oxen in the woods. He also found himself under the oak, and when he approached to take his oxen, he was also thunderstruck by the brilliant light, just like the Count, and withdrew confused. While the two men were still suffering from their astonishment, a voice spoke from the light. "Have no fear," it said, "I am Mary, the Mother of God. I wish that a chapel be established here in my honour and I will make it famous for the favours which will be granted to whomever will invoke me with the sincere heart of a child. Therefore, pray to me in front of this image." When the voice ceased, the brilliant light that enveloped the oak also disappeared and, within the branches of the tree, the Count and Strazzacappa saw a Black Madonna with the Child Jesus on its knees. That very night a host of angels and saints descended upon the woods in a celestial cavalcade and crowned the statue which became known, from that time forward, as the Madonna Incoronata, just as the place became known as the woods of the Incoronata. After the apparition, the Count of Ariano returned to his own lands and some time later he fell gravely ill. Strazzacappa, on the other hand, out of devotion for the Madonna put oil in the "caldarella," the copper pot that he used to cook his food, and with a wick made it into a votive lamp that he hung in the branches of the oak. He was then a witness to a second miracle. The flame of the "caldarella" burned for days and months without consuming the oil. The pilgrims, who were already coming in great numbers to pray to the Madonna, anointed themselves with the miraculous oil and many of them who asked for grace were healed in body and soul. The Count of Ariano, by now close to death, came to know about the miraculous properties of the oil and had himself anointed as well, whereupon he was completely healed in an instant. This time he did not fail to thank the Virgin for the miracle and on the site of the apparition, he had the first chapel erected upon which were later built the structures which became the large, modern sanctuary of today. The Legend of the Incoronata follows a pattern common to all the shrines of the Gargano. Like the "Sipontina, " moreover, it is a wooden statue in the Byzantine style, carved and painted like the ones that were brought to the Puglia and hidden by the monks of the Eastern Church during the time of the Iconoclast Controversy. And, like these, it has the Child Jesus on its knees in the style that caused them to be called by the term Hodegetria "She that points the way." The little statue of the Child Jesus of the Incoronata was soon lost, together with the Madonna's arms. The arms were replaced in antiquity, and a new Child Jesus, also of dark wood, was placed in the maternal lap by Pope John Paul II on the 24th of May, 1987. Every year the Madonna's richly embroidered dress is replaced on the Wednesday preceding the last Saturday of April, feast day of the Incoronata, when it is placed over the little white "smock" that clothes the statue. The shrine has been the destination of pilgrimages for the entire millennium since its establishment. Before the Virgin and the "holy wood"-the remnants of the ancient oak of the apparition, today kept under the altar of the crypt-Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Vincent Ferrer and San Gerardo, have all come to pray. In 1916, during his brief residence in the convent of Foggia, Padre Pio came here, and, as was mentioned above, also Pope Wojtyla, who is particularly devoted to the Madonna. The sanctuary that pilgrims visit today, inaugurated in 1965, is quite different from the monastery of only fifty years ago. Welcoming and endowed with large spaces, it preserves part of the innumerable gifts that the faithful have brought throughout the years in gratitude for favors received, while an enormous crown is suspended in the church's great hall-ten meters in diameter and weighing approximately eight tons-that is inscribed with the invocation Salve Regina, "Hail, Holy Queen." Here, behind the main altar, the pilgrims climb the steps of the "holy stair" that leads to the statue of the Virgin, then, today as a thousand years ago, they repeat the rite of anointing with the oil of the "caldarella," which they themselves bring so that the Madonna's light will never be extinguished.

Size:6.8" x 8.4"

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