Motta di Livenza
Motta di Livenza is a town in the province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy. It is located at around .
The cathedral at Motta di Livenza includes a shrine to the Madonna of Miracles. The seventy-nine year old farmer Giovanni Cigana, reported that on March 9, 1510 Mary appeared to him during his praying of the rosary, which he had devotedly done in the same spot every day for the past twenty years. He related that she had asked him and the inhabitants of the area to fast as an act of repentance for sin for at least three consecutive Saturdays, pray to God for mercy, and to build a basilica on the site so that people could come for prayer. The Marian apparition was subsequently investigated and proclaimed worthy of belief by pope Julius II.
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