Name: Sanctuary of Saint Lucia
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Location: Erchie, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy

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1. Sito Bici ASD – Parco Montalbano loop from Erchie

32.6km

02:08

130m

Intermediate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Porto Selvaggio Bay – Torre dell'Alto loop from Erchie-Torre Santa Susanna

109km

07:44

510m

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3. Laghetto Carrisiland – Sanctuary of Saint Lucia loop from Mesagne

43.4km

02:53

100m

Intermediate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Giuseppe Lomartire

December 31, 2021

Saint Lucia died in Syracuse on December 13, 304 and was buried in a catacomb where she stayed until 1039, the year in which the Sicilian city was freed from Turkish dominion by the Byzantine general Maniace who, having stolen the body of the martyr, decided to donate it. to his empress Theodora. Legend has it that, having taken the road to go to Constantinople, Maniace stopped in the Oritana forest, in a cave that opened onto a hollow in the area of Hercle, today's Erchie. The basement chapel The Basilian monks who lived in the nearby Messapian cave of the Annunziata, after having venerated the sacred remains, were given a bone of the Virgin and Martyr as a relic and, placed it in the cave used as a chapel at the edge of the valley, they began to the veneration of Saint Lucia in the Casale di Hercle. Over the centuries, the bone and a small picture of the Saint that had been placed to replace the stolen bone,

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Giuseppe Lomartire

December 31, 2021

they were the object of veneration by an increasing number of faithful. Later the chapel fell into neglect until in 1500 the picture depicting the Saint was found by a cowherd at the foot of a cow drinking from a spring gushing in the aforementioned valley. By virtue of this discovery, the Herculaneers brought the picture back to the Chapel, and, to immortalize the place where the prodigious event had taken place, they built the underlying Temple covering the source and the surrounding area. In 1565 the Chapel and the underlying Temple, which is located at a depth of about 9 meters from street level, were visited by Msgr. Carlo Bovio, Archbishop of Oria and Brindisi, in 1603 by Msgr. Lucio Fornari, in 1629 by Msgr. Ridolfi and then other Bishops. In 1638 the current wooden statue of Saint Lucia was placed on the altar of the chapel, which in 1650 was also gilded. No.

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Giuseppe Lomartire

December 31, 2021

In 1690 the Chapel was again adorned with a stone statue of the Saint and in 1740 another statue of the Virgin and Martyr was placed in the underlying Temple which, due to its not very consistent foundations, collapsed in 1819. Not at all discouraged, the Herculans not only resumed its construction but, having obtained land from the Duke of Satriano, feudal lord of Erchie, they began to build the upper church towards the south side of the chapel. This church was completed and inaugurated on April 25, 1865. This jewel that has given so much prestige to the town of Erchie, as well as being lavish with miracles of sight for the faithful who turned to Saint Lucia with faith, on April 8, 1953

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Location: Erchie, Brindisi, Apulia, Italy

Sanctuary of Saint Lucia

1. Sito Bici ASD – Parco Montalbano loop from Erchie

2. Porto Selvaggio Bay – Torre dell'Alto loop from Erchie-Torre Santa Susanna

3. Laghetto Carrisiland – Sanctuary of Saint Lucia loop from Mesagne

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