00:00On August 5, the church celebrates Our Lady of the Snows,
00:04an ancient devotion, born from a miracle in the heart of summer, in the eternal city.
00:10We are in Rome, in the 4th century.
00:12On the morning of August 5, 358, despite the stifling heat of the Roman summer,
00:18The Esquiline Hill is mysteriously covered in snow.
00:24Yes, snow.
00:25An immaculate whiteness, fallen from the sky, where it is never born in this season.
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