Parrocchia Di S Valentino

Very comfortable parish ??

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The heart

Beautiful church also accessible for the disabled ??

According to the toponymy, the term Marengo is to be connected to the pre-Roman Mara base (marsh, marsh) combined with the suffix Ingus: Marinus = moraine soil with pebbles. Therefore, it is not by chance that, around the year one thousand, by the hands of the Benedictines, the marshes are dried up, dammed and transformed into that fertile and rich soil of resources as it is today. Also the Fossa di Pozzolo and the invention of the Molinella canal, from which all the irrigation mouths of the left Mincio still derive and which is currently located in Marengo, was born from the expertise of the Benedictine monks of Polirone. The Marquis Bonifacio Canossa in 1037 celebrated in Marengo his second splendid wedding with Beatrice di Lorena. The famous daughter Matilda inherited the fief in 1080; he built a chapel dedicated to Saint Valentine in place; in 1113 it gave the whole to the Abbey of Polirone; in 1355 Pope Martin entrusted the administration of the fiefdom to the Gonzagas who became its effective owners in 1527, granting it a pleasant residence to their prestigious artist Giulio Romano. In 1651 the fief passed by investiture to the Custoza counts, of which a considerable complex of buildings remains in the country. The Villa Tezzoli, with its park and Botturi palace with towers from the 16th century and parts of the 18th century, is more prestigious. The parish church looks like a huge hut with a sloping roof and exposed stone. Begun in 1966 with the laying of the first stone by Bishop Poma, blessed in 1969 by Bishop Carlo Ferrari, consecrated in April 1991 by Bishop Caporello: the new temple was dedicated to St. Valentine martyr, according to a millenary devotion brought to Marengo by Benedettini in 1113. The interior decoration is modern, while the seventeenth century is an oratory of the Madonna, with a painting by Pietro de Fabris (1700).

In Marengo, a small village of ancient origins, there is a small sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin Mary, an anonymous painting dating back to 1200, with the crowned Madonna, the new church is dedicated to S. Valentino where the relic with the Saint's finger exists.