The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Boats in Church
They’re votive offerings — some more than 200 years old — that residents of this Mediterranean port city continue to bring in gratitude to the Virgin Mary for everything from avoiding shipwrecks to successful rescues of migrants trying to make it to Europe on unseaworthy boats.
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