Monte Stella, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy Apparition, with a message — 31 May 1536
Antonio de’ Antoni, a poor deaf-mute shepherd of Gardone Val Trompia, was reciting the
rosary while his flock was grazing. Suddenly there came before his eyes a light more intense than the Sun, in the middle of which the Virgin appeared with Jesus in her arms. Dressed in a simple way, she wanted the shepherds to build a temple there. Antonio went off and described the event to everyone he knew, and when he returned the site was “illuminated by the beams of an overhanging star.” Pope Paul III gave the place a consecrated status, and construction was completed in 1539.
Source: Marino Gamba, Apparizioni mariane nel corso di due millenni (Udine: Ediz. II Segno, 1999). Case: W127