The Holy Father of the Perriera’s cave
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The Holy Father of the Perriera’s cave, placed at the borders of the Town of Mazara, was excavated in a quarry once used for the tuff rock processing, that was called perriera.
The cave is still a place of pilgrimage and worship, and hosts a copy of Saint Francis from Paola’s bust.
This friar, the founder of the Minims’Order, who brought a deep change and religious renewal in the church, was proclaimed saint in 1519 by Pope Leo X and “heavenly saint patron of Italian men at sea” by Pope Pius XII in 1943.
In 1899 the cave outside was adorned with a small dome and a pronaos standing on two tuff rock columns.
Near the Sanctuary there is the Tuff Museum, formerly an old quarry.
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