The Lussari mount is a jewel of incomparable beauty, here you can see the wonderful natural scene of majestic and high tops. This place is not only an important naturalistic site, but also a Sanctuary, the Sanctuary that joins the Slavic, Italian and German ethnic stocks. In the 16th. Century the mount was already destination of pilgrimages of the three people; today it can undoubtedly come considered as an european Sanctuary.
Prayer to the Queen of the People of Europe


Oh Queen of the Saint Mount of Lussari, than gives beyond six hundred years is awake from the place where s' the three people of Europe meet: the Latin, the Slav and the German, conserve the treasure of the peace, sigh of every heart, gift of God to the men of good will. It makes that the people of Europe meet in fraternal understanding in the reciprocal esteem and respect, in the development of the common Christian civilization. Bless you all those who rush to your feet and, in the various languages, but with the same faith and the same love, praise to You and God Mother exalt You like ours. Or faithful vergine, aid of the Christians, illuminates the wanderings in the faith ago and that all yours To of Europe try with good will the truth in the charity, because the Church of Christ, second the prayer of your divine Son Jesus, is one, Mother to all of grace and salvation.

Short prayer: ”Our Lady of Lussari Mount, pray for us!”
According to an ancient tradition, in 1360 a shepherdesses of Camporosso lost his sheps, that he found shortly after around a bush of pine.
With great wonder he noticed that in the center of the bush there was a little statue of Madonna with the Baby.He taken the statue and bring it downstream and carried it to the Parish priest of Camporosso. The following morning but the statue came found newly on the Lussari, newly surrounded from the sheep knelt down. Such episode was repeated another time. The Parish priest therefore informed about the fact the Patriarch of Aquileia; he ordered that on the place in which was found the statue it came constructed a chapel.

Today the original chapel there is no more; It came instead replaced in 1500 by the actual chorus; made all in stone, as the vault. In 1760 the community of Slovenian believers celebrated the fourth centenary of the Sanctuary.
In 1786 Emperor od Austria, Giuseppe the second, prohibited the celebration of whichever religious function inside the chirch. It was closed, the inside was stripped
of all the sacred objects and the pilgrimages were prohibited. But in 1790 the successor, his brother Leopoldo, cancelled the decree: The Madonna could therefore return in its dwelling on the Lussari mount.
In 1807 a lighting hit and destroyed the wooden part of the church; the industrious believers rebuilded but it in a short time, widening it.
In 1915 the Sanctuary was in the combat lines of the Great war. The 16 September a bomb was launched against the church caused a fire, which destroyed it. Under order of the Parish priest, Padre Pio, the statue was carried out downhill from the keeper of the church, Giovanni Kravina. From the day of Pentacost to month of July it came conserved in the presbitery of Camporosso. Later was carried out to villach, Klagenfurt andin Maribor, in the basilica of the “Madonna delle Grazie”. In september 1920, it was carried out in the Church of the Pilgrims of the Saint Cross in Davograd. In August of the successive year, finally, it could return to Camporosso. On 24 June 1925 it returned in the small church in on the Mount, that was meanwhile reconstructed.
Also during the world-wide conflict the Sanctuary remained closed. The Virgin Maria was transported in the presbitery of Camporosso, where remained from August 1943 until 11 August 1945, when it was take back in its home on Lussari.

In 1960 was celebrated the sixth anniversary of the Sanctuary. In that occasion the church was restaured and started a lot of jobs to rennovate the houses of the Sanctuary. The most important restoration coincides with the Jubilee of 2000. Were esecuted a lot of maintenance works of the Sanctuary and the presbitery was completely renew. The Lussari has been always the place of pilgrimage for excellence for the slovenian population.
The inside of the church hold valuables paintings, those was painted by the Slovenian painter Tone Kralj. There is “The representation of the Comforting Madonna of the plagued”, “The Annunciation”, “The Escape in Egypt”,”Jesus twelve-year-old in the Temple”,”Maria who pray under the Cross” and the “Coronation” of the Virgin”. The season of the summery pilgrimages starts in June and finishes the first sunday of october.