Thousands of Crotonese as usual participated in the procession of the large painting of the Madonna di Capocolonna That a week before the large night pilgrimage, is brought to the shoulder by the Portantini to the Civil Hospital. The Holy icon of the black Virgin around 18.30 left the Church of the Immaculate Conception and the procession led by Archbishop Alberto Torriani, between two wings of Crowd, crossed via Messinetti, via Mario Nicoletti and then via Cutro to reach via Bologna where he overlooks the civil hospital. Here the civil and military authorities with the deputy mayor of Crotone Sandro Cretella, the vice -president of the province Fabio Manica, the chaplain of the San Giovanni di Dio Don Claudio Pirillo, the extraordinary commissioner of the ASP of Crotone Monica Calamai and the health director of the garrison Lucio Cosentino were awaited.
The Bishop pronounced his intervention and the procession preceded by the Effigie of Maria di Capocolonna resumed the way back crossing via 25 April and Corso Vittorio Veneto, in a shower of colored tickets with the phrases that the Crotonese dedicated to the black Virgin whose celebrations entered the highlight that will end on Sunday 18 with the great pilgrimage on foot to the sanctuary