| It seems to have been built in the early seventeenth century, although it is officially described for the first time in the Pastoral Visit of 1746. On that occasion, in fact, it was stated the church dedicated to Our Lady of Constantinople presented with a single nave and three altars, with more than a niche in stone with the image of the Madonna of Constantinople drawn on the wall and the side devoted respectively to St. Mark and St. Augustine.
It was in 1853 that the chapel of the Madonna of Constantinople led for the first time the name "Mary of the Holy Bread," as evidenced in the minutes of the holy Pastoral Visit also reported that "the need to record a report of many prodigious facts written by the Rev . D. Vincenzo Tarantini ". The facts in question were referring to the legendary apparition of the Virgin to a commoner named Giovanna took place in 1707, Our Lady appeared to Giovanna precisely in places where the chapel was built (called "cuneddha"), to give her the miraculous bread that would have defeated a deadly epidemic then raging in the community.
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