Case file · Apparition / miracle
Apparition at Tirano
On 29 September 1504 the Virgin reportedly appeared to Mario Omodei in an orchard at Tirano, in the Valtellina, promising an end to plague; the Basilica of the Madonna di Tirano was begun the next year.
1504 CE · 46.21, 10.16 · status: legend
The sceptical view
A plague-era devotion; the account comes from the shrine's tradition.