madonnina

The Madonna of Port

Tourism

Also about You Madonna I speack,

of You that it illuminates that Port

of that intense flame that heats

the minds also hardest.

You that from waters of the Port

thee rise and protect and guides the sailors

and bless the City.

To the income of the Port , on the ancient tower of the strongly S. Salvatore constructed in 1546,

it rises the stele to octagonal, high plant 35 meters,

made to construct from the archbishop of Messina mons. Paino Angelo on plan of the engineer Barbaro Francesco.

The column in reinforced concrete, covered in stone of Bottoming drills,

it is surmounted from the Statue of the Madonnina symbol of the city

The work in golden bronze, executed from the sculptor Tore Calabrò, is high 7 meters.

It came inaugurated with a solemn ceremony in the 1934 from Devout Pope XI that set in action from Rome the device,

devised and put to point from Guglielmo Marconi, with which the lights were ignited that they illuminated

the stele, the registration on the massive wall of the S. Salvatore and the aureole of the Madonna.

Along the massive wall that it delimits the fort is written the phrase...

VOS ET IPSAM CIVITATEM BENEDICIMUS

Draft from the Sacred Letter delivered from the Madonna to the messinese embassy, in Palestine in year 42, whose text recites:

"Vergine Maria daughter of Gioacchino, humblest servant of God, Mother of Jesus Crocifisso, the tribe of Giuda, the stirpe of David, health to all the messinesi and blessing of God Father Omnipotent.

Us consta for public instrument that You all with great Faith have We sent Legacies and Ambassadors, confessing that Our Son, generated from God is God and Man and that after Its Resurrection salted to the Sky: having You known the Way of the Truth for means of the preech of Paul elect apostle for which thing BENEDICIAMO VOI E L'ISTESSA CITTA' of which We want to be perpetual protecting.

From Gerusalemme Year 42 of Our Son.

Indiction 1^ moon XXVII day of Thursday 3 of June ".