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Every year in Alcamo there are the celebrations in honour of Our Lady of
Miracles since 19 June until 21 of June. This is the most important religious and folkloristic festivity in Alcamo. The real celebrations are often anticipated by other events, so extending the feast to about two weeks, in this
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According to tradition while washing their clothes in the torrent, the women, with a blind and a deaf one among them, saw the apparition of a woman with a child and were hit by a gust of pebbles moved during the apparition, but without getting any injury or pain; on the contrary, after being hit by
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on a stone made by an anonymous painter of the 13th century representing Our Lady with the Child Jesus, which at first the believers called "Madonna Fons
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Since 1615, the year in which Alcamo was seriously hit by pestilence, there is the so-called "Penitential
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The traditional descent to the sanctuary is put on during the so-called "Historical
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of the town. In old times people took also the animals that had recovered from an illness. Inside the sanctuary they sing
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of Our Lady of Miracles' statue along the town streets and return to the
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Our Lady of Miracles' statue before the solemn procession.
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The Streets entertainers' (called "madonnari") festival.
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