The 'Ndrangheta and religious festivals
Part of the Calabrian church is trying to free Christian celebrations from mafia interest. Starting from the sanctuary of Polsi, the first place of summit and now presided over, to the choice of the bishop of Vibo Valentia, to verify the relationships of the brotherhoods with the 'ndrangheta and freemasonry

December 27, 2023

“The choice to appropriate Christian rites and symbols may be linked to the tendency of families to give a spiritual foundation to what they do. If the 'Ndrangheta presents itself as 'another state', then it must have another religion." Thus Don Tonino Saraco, who last July received us in his office in the parish of Ardore , in the heart of Locride . In 2017 Monsignor Francesco Oliva , bishop of the diocese of Locri-Gerace , wanted him as the new rector of the sanctuary of Polsi , one of the most mystical places in Calabria , and perhaps also for this reason, at least until about a decade ago, the nerve center of the perverse relationship between the 'Ndrangheta lust for power, symbolism and sacred occasions.

The history of the sanctuary of the Madonna della Montagna, in Polsi, is associated with the 'Ndrangheta dynamics, according to some scholars, since the last decade of the nineteenth century.

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