October 13
Madonna della Schiavonea, Corigliano Calabro, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
In the night of August 23, 1648, as mounted sentinel Antonio Ruffo watched the sea near St. Leonard's Church and the Tower of Cupo, he saw, not the Muslim raiders he was looking out for, but the Holy Virgin, seated over the sea. Arms outstretched, she calmed his fears, calling herself the Madonna of Schiavonea. Afterwards, the watchman commissioned a local artist named Scamardella to paint her portrait, which was carried in procession to St. Leonard's Church on October 13, 1648. Work on a new sanctuary at the site began March 16, 1649. Dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, after Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, the shrine and Schiavonea district celebrate their patronal feast day on August 5 with a nautical procession of a standing statue of the Virgin and Child, while the unusual Black Madonna painting remains in the diocesan sanctuary above the main altar.
Sources:
 | "Apparizione Marina di Schiavonea," mariadinazareth.it. |
| "Immagini del Santuario di Schiavonea in Santa Maria ad Nives," www.santuari.it (photo) |
Also commemorated this date:
| Inmaculada Concepción, Lo Vásquez, Casablanca, Chile. Statue crowned, 1951. Feast December 8. |
| Notre-Dame de l' Espérance, Mont-Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France (Our Lady of Hope). Chapel and statue dedicated, 1857. Feast August 15. |
| Madonna del Ghisallo, Magreglio, Como, Lombardy, Italy. Pope Pius XII named her patron of bicyclists, 1949. |
| Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, Lisbon, Portugal. Basilica's patronal festa. |
| Final apparition and miracle of the sun, Fátima, Ourém, Santarém, Centro, Portugal, 1917 |
| Our Lady of Lourdes, Daegu, Yeongnam, South Korea. Grotto inaugurated, 1918. |
| Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Statue crowned, 1889. Fiestas February 2 and August 15. |
| Fatima Mother of God, Dovbysh, Baranivsky, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Statue dedicated in parish church, now Sanctuary, 1990. |
| Our Lady of Fatima, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Catholic parish's feast day mass celebrating the anniversary of the miracle of the sun. |