Holy mountain (Sveta gora) or Skalnica
Legend has it that herdswoman Urška Ferligoj from Grgar saw the Virgin Mary when grazing sheep on Skalnica. The Virgin Mary ordered a house to be built there for her. The church on Skalnica was replaced with a three-nave building five years later. During the consecration the patriarch of Aquileia donated the famous painting of the Virgin with the child, a work of painter Palma senior of Venice. The painting is in the main altar to this day.
The front of Isonzo proved fatal also for the church on the Holy Mountain, turning it into wreckage soon after the beginning of the battle.
In the year 1928 the pilgrim church of the Assumption of the Virgin was restored and consecrated again. Today the pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary of the Holy Mountain is the most well-known pilgrimage path in the western Slovenia.
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