Patron saint festival In 293 days
Our Lady of the Snows, patron of the land of the Horszowski Auditorium
📅 Every year, on 5 August
Monforte d'Alba celebrates Our Lady of the Snows on 5 August, in the church dedicated to her.
The name comes from the castle walls that girdled the summit: Mons Fortis. In the first quarter of the eleventh century the whole community, countess and peasants alike, had turned heretic: they read the Bible in a wholly spiritual sense, built their own doctrine of the Trinity, prayed day and night, and sought detachment from matter and martyrdom.
Around 1028 the archbishop of Milan, Ariberto da Intimiano, and the bishop of Asti, Alrico, besieged and took the castle. The people were deported to Milan and put to a choice: abjure or the stake. Most, consistent with what they believed, did not abjure. Corso Monforte in Milan is named for those events, and from it the vanished Porta Monforte and Pusterla took theirs.
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chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.