Relic on the Cliff Face: How Angels, Hermits, and Knights Built the Shrine of Our Lady of the Crown in Spiazzi, Italy

What drives men to hang by ropes over a thousands-foot abyss, hammering stone by hand to build a sanctuary on the side of a mountain?In The Relic on the Cliff Face, historian Bernard de Clare takes you deep into the heart of Monte Baldo in Northern Italy, where history, architecture, and divine intervention collided. For centuries, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Crown in Spiazzi has mystified trave...