santuario, diocesano, Santuario Diocesano Maria SS.ma di Patmos

The parish church of San Giovanni Battista, now the Diocesan Sanctuary of Maria SS.ma di Patmos, stands as a Renaissance-era foundation in the Italian region of Calabria. Its origins reach back to the early 1500s, with records from the Vatican Regesta and a pastoral visit in 1586 confirming a church on this site under the name of St John the Baptist. A new building was erected between 1747 and 1753, but it collapsed in the devastating earthquake of 1783. The church is home to a venerated image of the Virgin, crowned and proclaimed Protector of Rosarno in 1950. Each year, on the second Sunday of August, a penitential procession of some five kilometres winds from the sanctuary to the spot where, according to tradition, the statue was discovered at the mouth of the Mesima river in 1400. The sanctuary was formally elevated to its current status in 1999.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.