page_title: Festa della Santissima Pietà
section_title: The legend originating the feast
hierarchical_section_title: Festa della Santissima Pietà / The legend originating the feast
caption_attribution_description: English: The Man of Sorrows with Virgin Mary and Saint John, Cannobio, Italy
context_page_description: The Holy Piety feast is a catholic feast celebrated on 7 January evening in Cannobio.
context_section_description: According to the legend, in Cannobio on 8, 9, 10 and 28 January 1522 in Tommaso Zaccheo's inn occurred miracles.
  A waitress, gone upstairs to take clean sheets, noticed that the little painting of the Man of Sorrows, representing Jesus between the Virgin Mary and Saint John, was bleeding. The day after a little bleeding rib, proportionate to the painted Christ, was found under the painting.
  The Sacred Rib was preserved in a goblet and carried to the church of San Vittore, where it is still preserved in a precious shrine donated by Federico Borromeo in 1605.
  The inn was than demolished in order to allow the building of the majestic sanctuary, whose constriction was supported by Charles Borromeo, that today still preserve the painting and the bloodstained sheets.
caption: The holy image of Cannobio
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