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30minutes
Italian
Unlimited
Church
Suitable for children
Suitable for couples
Pets allowed
Parking available
Barrier-free
Language supports
The entrance is at 13 Via Vico Tre in Toledo, 80132, Naples
You can visit the shrine from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Visits are suspended during Eucharistic celebrations.
Many women with fertility problems rely on St. Mary Frances by going to the Shrine of St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds, and they sit on the famous Fertility chair To receive a blessing from a nun of St. Mary Frances.
The shrine is located at the beginning of the Spanish Neighborhoods in Vico Tre Re in Toledo. The church was built at the behest of Ferdinand II of Bourbon and completed in 1861.
St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds is the first Neapolitan saint, co-patron saint of the city of Naples and patroness of barren and pregnant women. Her name was Anna Maria Rosa Nicoletta Gallo and she was born in Naples on March 25, 1715, into a family of artisans.
Even as a child, Anna Maria was determined to want to consecrate herself to the Lord against the wishes of her father, who wanted a marriage for her to a wealthy young man from Naples. Anna Maria, despite mistreatment and deprivation, entered the Franciscan Alcantarine Third Order on September 8, 1731 at the age of sixteen, with the name Maria Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus Christ.
Among his many gifts was that of prophecy; in fact, he predicted many events to believers and priests and even the French Revolution. Mary Frances received the stigmata, also every Friday and during the Lent felt the pains of Christ's Passion.
At age 38, he moved to vico Tre Re in Toledo in the home of Father Giovanni Pessiri, his spiritual director, to care for him. He died on October 6, 1791 at the age of 76. Her body was buried in the church of Santa Lucia al Monte in Naples. On November 12, 1843, she was proclaimed blessed by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized on June 29, 1867, by Pope Pius IX. On October 6, 2001, her relics were transferred to the shrine that now bears her name.
The main entrance leads to a small nave at the end of which is the altar with the statue of St. Mary Frances, dressed in the Franciscan habit. From the secondary entrance we enter two side chapels, in the first we see a statue of a Madonnina in a grotto built with stones from the grotto of Lourdes. Below, in the second chapel, we find the tomb of the Saint, a destination par excellence for the faithful.
From here it is possible to enter the house of St. Mary Frances, filled with hundreds of ex-votos, pink and blue ribbons, accompanied by sweet pictures of newborn babies, signs of the gratitude of devout women. After the chapel, in another room, we find the famous Fertility Chair.
So many women still rely on St. Mary Frances in order to have children. In the city of Naples, the cult of the Fertility chair, the devotees sit in the chair where the saint used to rest from her sufferings to receive, from one of the Daughters of St. Mary Frances, a blessing.
The nuns bring a reliquary containing a bone and some of the saint's hair close to the chest of the devotees, while the women pray for conception or for the pregnancy to go well.
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