POPE ANNOUNCES VISIT TO SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF BONARIA
Vatican City, 15 May 2013
(VIS) – At the end of today's general audience, the Pope, addressing a
group of pilgrims from the Italian island of Sardinia, announced that he
would like to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Bonaria that is located
in the Sardinian city of Cagliari.
“I would like to visit the Sanctuary in Cagliari—almost
surely in the month of September,” he said, “because there is a
brotherhood between the cities of Buenos Aires and Cagliari because of
an ancient story. At the moment of the founding of the city of Buenos
Aires ifs founder wanted to name it 'City of the Most Holy Trinity', but
the sailors who had brought him there were Sardinian and they wanted it
to be called 'City of the Madonna of Bonaria'. There was an argument
and, in the end, they arrived at a compromise. Thus the city's name
turned out rather long: 'City of the Most Holy Trinity and Port of Our
Lady of Bonaria'. Since it was so long only the last [word] remained:
Bonaria, Buenos Aires, in memory of your image of the Madonna of
Bonaria.”
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