Gargano
Monte Sant'Angelo in Apulia, the cave where the cult began around 490 and the oldest Michael shrine in western Europe. The Lombard patronage, the Via Sacra Langobardorum, the pilgrim graffiti cut into the walls, and the UNESCO listing.
Part of Saint Michael
22 moments in this segment.
- - Pilgrims at Monte Sant'Angelo in the 1980s. Footage of pilgrim crowds at the Gargano sanctuary filmed in the 1980s, later published to mark the shrine's World Heritage inscription.
- - The UNESCO Inscription Ceremony at Monte Sant'Angelo. Official ceremony marking the inscription of the Basilica of San Michele Arcangelo on the World Heritage List, held at Monte Sant'Angelo on 17 July 2012.
- - The Archangel's Way: Benevento to Monte Sant'Angelo. Italian Alpine Club film of the pilgrim route from Benevento to the Gargano shrine, retracing the paths taken by pilgrims around the year 1000.
- - On the Archangel's Way, 2012. Longer Italian Alpine Club film of the Gargano pilgrimage route, passing San Giovanni Rotondo and the sites associated with Padre Pio.
- - Giorgio Otranto on Saint Michael and the Lombards Across Europe. Interview with the historian who led the study of the Gargano cult, on how Lombard devotion carried the shrine's influence across Europe.
- - Inside the Sanctuary of St Michael the Archangel, Gargano. An Italian broadcast visit to the cave sanctuary at Monte Sant'Angelo, a UNESCO-listed Lombard pilgrimage site.
- - An Archangel in the Caves: The Cult of Michael in Medieval Italy. An Italian lecture on the medieval cult of St Michael in cave sanctuaries across Italy, the network that produced Monte Sant'Angelo.
- - Saint Michael and the Runes of the Gargano Basilica. Documentary on the Norse runic inscriptions carved in the Monte Sant'Angelo sanctuary, evidence of Scandinavian pilgrims' devotion to the Archangel.
- - Monte Sant'Angelo and the Lombards of Italy. Produced for the UNESCO serial site Longobardi in Italia on the Gargano cave sanctuary of St Michael, a Lombard royal shrine and terminus of the Via Sacra Langobardorum.
- - Where Francis of Assisi Stopped at the Grotto. Short film marking the spot in the Gargano grotto where tradition holds Francis of Assisi halted, feeling unworthy to enter the cave.
- - Inside the Gargano Sanctuary of Saint Michael. Short Italian heritage film taking the viewer past the Romanesque portal and the altar of Saint Francis into the irregular rock cavern that forms the basilica.
- - The Cave and the Angel's Sword at Monte Gargano. Mexican priest's visit to the oldest sanctuary dedicated to Michael, describing the ritual sword brought out on feast days and in times of crisis.
- - An Exhibition on Medieval Michael Iconography at Monte Sant'Angelo. The town of Monte Sant'Angelo, site of the Gargano sanctuary, presents its 2021 exhibition on the archangel's iconography in the Middle Ages. In Italian.
- - Michael and History: Scholars of the Centro Studi Micaelici. Panel with Alessandro Lagioia, Canella and Immacolata Aulisa of the University of Bari's Centre for Michaeline and Gargano Studies on the sanctuary's textual and historical record.
- - The Archangel's Way Along the Via Appia Traiana. Italian travel documentary on the pilgrim road from Benevento to the Gargano sanctuary, a destination for Lombard and Germanic pilgrims from across Christian Europe.
- - The Lombard Archangel of Monte Sant'Angelo. Italian talk on Lombard influence in southern Italy centred on the Gargano sanctuary, covering faith, pilgrimage and warfare.
- - Monte Sant'Angelo, the City of Two UNESCO Sites. Regional tourism film on the Gargano town holding both the Lombard traces in the Michael sanctuary and the ancient beech forest of the Foresta Umbra on the World Heritage List.
- - The Gargano Sanctuary and the Lombards: A Warrior Angel for a Warrior People. Academic conference paper, part of the Brescia exhibition 'Toccar con Mano i Longobardi' (2022), on how the Lombards adopted Michael as their patron at the Gargano shrine.
- - EWTN: The Cave of Saint Michael at Gargano. EWTN programme on the Apulian cave sanctuary, a pilgrimage destination for over a millennium, which tradition says Francis of Assisi felt unworthy to enter.
- - The Grotto of Saint Michael at Cagnano Varano. Short documentary on a secondary Gargano cave shrine where local tradition holds the Archangel rested on his way to Monte Sant'Angelo.
- - The Holy Door and Inscriptions of the Gargano Grotto. Italian tour of the Gargano sanctuary, which tradition holds was consecrated by the Archangel rather than by human hands, and its Holy Door inscriptions.
- - Monte Sant'Angelo: The Sanctuary Where Heaven Touches Earth. Italian documentary inside the Gargano cave basilica, which the tradition holds was consecrated by the Archangel himself rather than by any bishop.
