April 4 is the feast day of Our Lady of the Valley (also known as Our Lady of the Green Valley). In the year 1036, a bandit named Dionysius who operated around Mount Etna was converted by a vision of Our Lady, who appeared to him in an earthquake. The bandit became a hermit and built a chapel at the spot. One night he was rapt in prayer when he was struck by an intense beam of light and saw a cloud in which the Madonna appeared surrounded by heavenly angels.The light dispersed as the cloud rose toward heaven, revealing a magnificent image of the Blessed Virgin and her Divine Son imprinted on the rough wall of a pillar of the church.
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