Today happens to be Our Lady's feast day. (The feast is celebrated outside Genazzano on 26 April.).
The history of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Good Counsel is available on several websites, so I will not go into much detail here.
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In 1467, on the 25 of April, during celebrations for the feast of San Marco in Genazzano, Italy, a cloud was seen covering a 5th century church dedicated to Our Lady. Shortly after the cloud lifted, the townsfolk, summoned by the church bells, discovered a delicate fresco of Our Lady and the Child Jesus, it was painted upon a very thin piece of unsupported plaster, and floated in a small niche of the church. Later it was revealed the image had been transported by angels from Scutari, Albania, because the region was coming under Islamic control.
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Today the image still survives, after 500 years, undamaged by earthquakes and war, and it is said a fine thread can be passed on all sides, demonstrating the image remains miraculously suspended.
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I believe this prodigy as I do the miraculous translation of the Holy House of Loreto.
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