Above: Basilica of St. Mary of Mount Berico. Six hundred years ago, on March 7, 1426, on Monte Berico in Vicenza, northern Italy, an event occurred that would leave a lasting imprint on the city’s spiritual legacy: the Virgin Mary appeared to a simple and devout woman who, every day, brought lunch to her husband working on the hill. Two years later, on August 1, 1428…
