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On the 29th of August 1954 he held the ceremony in which the statue of the
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The current management of the sanctuary is entrusted to the Oblate
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family. The prayers of the faithful led to a collection of 112 tablets of ex voto. These works were studied by Natale Perego who, among other things, discovered that in the period 1862-1878 there was a single artist dedicated only to their painting.
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The sanctuary can be accessed via the 392 steps of the Scala Santa. Most are linear steps until the end with a scenic sweep of two arms. At the top is a modern bronze statue of Pope John XXIII by
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The layout is octagonal, typical of 15th-century Marian shrines in
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to raise the sanctuary to the level of a Minor
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