Arezzo Calcio will play with an image of the Madonna on the shirt

(ANSA) – AREZZO, 17 AUG – Arezzo Calcio will play the next Serie C championship with the effigy of the Madonna del Conforto on their shirts. She is the patron saint of the diocese of Arezzo and protector from earthquakes, to whom a large popular devotion is directed, felt in many parts of Central Italy, not only in the Arezzo area. “We proposed in the creation of the Arezzo shirts, both last year and this year, a tribute to the religious symbols of the city, in the sign of a devotion that also belongs to me personally – explains Francesca Manzo, daughter of the owner of the Amaranto club, Guglielmo Manzo – The Madonna del Conforto is an identity symbol of Arezzo, it is the most venerated and deep-rooted icon in the entire Arezzo area. It seems to us a choice that increasingly ties the club and, therefore, the football team to the city”. The initiative was announced today. The effigy of the Madonna del Conforto on the shirts pleases Bishop Andrea Migliavacca, but the video filmed in the Cathedral with a model in front of the altar dedicated to the Marian icon, does not. So he got the Amaranth club to remove it. From Peru, where he is on a pilgrimage, Bishop Migliavacca, immediately informed by the curia, intervened by letting it be known that he is “very happy” that the Arezzo shirt shows the great Marian devotion of the people of Arezzo. But at the same time he considered the images made in the cathedral as inappropriate with respect to the highly symbolic significance of the association of the Madonna del Conforto with the city’s football team. (ANSA).