The Sanctuary of Materdomini is one of the oldest Marian Sanctuaries in Campania and boasts a thousand years of history. The story goes that in 1041 a peasant girl had a vision of Our Lady, who invited her to dig under an oak tree where the young girl used to rest and where she would find an icon. The first research was not successful, but they continued to dig and the painting of the Holy Virgin was found. The devotion for the Holy Image grew rapidly, fuelled by numerous miracles, the Sanctuary was built between 1168 and 1772 on a previous church by the Benedictine abbot Pietro Ferrara, until 1631 it remained under the Benedictines, then passed to the Basilians and finally to the Friars Minor.
