COLLEVALENZA SANCTUARY
“Where God Merciful Love is waiting for people as a Father who loves and forgive them”
Collevalenza
The Sanctuary of Collevalenza is located in the center of the Italian peninsula, very close to the Municipality of Todi, in the Umbria region.
Inspired by the Lord, in this place, Mother Hope of Jesus built the Sanctuary of Merciful Love.
A place where: “God was waiting for men, not as a judge to condemn them and to inflict punishment, but as a loving Father, who loves, forgives and forgets the offenses he received and does not take them into account.”
150.000
pilgrims per year visit the Merciful Love Shrine in Collevalenza (Italy)
Information for Pilgrims
The Sanctuary of Collevalenza is in the center of the Italian peninsula, very close to the town of Todi, in the region of Umbria.
Different Parts of the Sanctuary
The pilgrim arriving in Collevalenza feels welcomed by a modern and sober architecture that, with an intelligent game of concave and convex lines…
Sanctuary of the Crucifix
It is a simple and modern building, in the form of a cross and with the wooden ascending roof of Siberian larch…
Basilica
In 1962, the Spanish architect Julio Lafuente received the request to build a church, in at once modern and traditional style…
The Crypt
The Basilica also has a lower church, the “crypt.” Half underground, meditative and in the twilight, architectonically united with the…
The Well and the Baths
On the square, to the left of the Basilica, we find a well, dug in obedience to God’s explicit will, transmitted by Mother Esperanza…
House of the pilgrim
Inside architectonic and spiritual ensemble of the Sanctuary, we also find the House of the Pilgrim, a modern building, which receives…
Way of the Cross
With the monumental open-air Stations of the Cross, the Sanctuary wants to turn our eyes to the Merciful Love that Jesus showed us…
The Christ of Merciful Love
It is a work realized in Spain in 1931 by the sculptor Lorenzo Cullot Valera. The crucified Christ welcomes us with the wide-open arms…
Mary Mediatrix
This image of the Holy Virgin is in one of the chapels of the Basilica of Merciful Love in Collevalenza(Italy)…
Visita la la página de Collevalenza
El lema que el papa Francisco nos ha dado para este Año Santo de la misericordia se toma del Evangelio de Lucas: “Misericordiosos como el Padre” (Lc 6,36).
