Madonna di Pietraquaria is one of the titles by which the Holy Virgin Mary is venerated as the Patroness of the city of Avezzano, in Abruzzo, Italy. On 1 January 1978, Maria Santissima di Pietraquaria
Statue of the Madonna di Pietraquaria
Madonna di Pietraquaria protecting the city of Avezzano (serigraphy by Fedele De Bernardinis, 1791)
The chapel erected in the place where the miraculous encounter between the Madonna and the deaf-mute shepherd
Focaraccio in honour of the Madonna di Pietraquaria
The Piani Palentini is a plateau in upper Marsica, a subregion of Abruzzo, in central Italy.
Madonna di Pietraquaria
…Pietra Aquaria contained the painting depicting the image of the Holy Virgin. The historical events of the Battle of Tagliacozzo, which occurred in the Palentine Plains between Charles I of Anjou and Conradin of Hohenstaufen, led to the destruction of the village of Pietra Aquaria and obliged inhabitants to gather at…
View of the Piani Palentini
Rocca Orsini in Scurcola Marsicana