| On July 2, 1518, in an old chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Woods, a young girl, Angela Schiaffino, said that she saw the Virgin who asked her to build a shrine. On July 2, 1631 the church was completed. By decree of August 12, 1817, Pius VII (1800-1823) authorized the Coronation of Our Lady of the Woods. The ceremony was celebrated on the first Sunday in September of 1818.
Source: Laurentin, Rene and Sbalchiero, Patrick. Dictionary of the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary. p.142
Ernst 1989, 52. Gamba 199, 321; P. Mantero, Apparizioni mariane e segni celesti in Genova e Liguria, Udine 1988, 28-29
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