To south of Messina a mount rises, high 1130 meters, called Dinnamare, why it dominates the two seas: the Jonio and the Tyrrhenian one. That mount makes part of the Peloritani Mounts and, in ancient, Nettunio and also Calcidico (of first inhabitants of Messina was called, the Calcidesi). Scoscese valleys and deep ravines from every leave encircle it. Its top is full of rocks, barren and brulla and it does not produce that eriche and ferns, while the laughing fruitful hills that, rising themselves from the sea, abound of uliveti, vineyards and trees. From the top of the mount, watching towards east, you the magnificent show of the Appennino Calabro, seeded of villages is adorned innanzi and separated from waters of the Strait, that they bathe, from a part, the charming coasts of Reggio and Scilla and, from the other, the pleasant ones spiagge of Messina. From the West it admires the cape of Milazzo, Tindari and, more in here, in means to the waves, the Aeolian Islands.

How much time has been lassù the miraculous picture does not know it. We know but from the Saperi that, in 1644, given to the publication of its "Iconologia of the Vergine Blessed soul lassù Maria" venerava an image of average relief of the Madonna, because the primitivo picture had been stolen from ignoti. It is believed that the arrival of the Picture of the Madonna in the beach of Larderia is of age normanna. A copy of the miraculous picture, than conserve to Messina in a cappelletta peasant, is along and wide 8 palms, in contrada the Zaera. Picture and cappelletta had been made to construct from a peasant of the near villages, much devout person of the Madonna di Dinnamare that, every year, to own expenses, of it celebrated on the mount the festivity, and oltremodo yearning to diffuse the cult. We know that that image divenne veneratissima and operated prodigal. Towards year 1600, the natural ones of Larderia wanted to make to paint a new picture. The painter rather than to reproduce the Madonna com' was painted in the remained copies, of it he painted only the busto and in down cloud wrapped the figure in one white woman. It was taken care to paint the scene of the Dolphins that carried the picture on the river. That picture but always did not remain on the mount; it was carried to you in the time of the August festivities. During the year it remained to Larderia and it was placed over an appropriate altar, that it rose to right of the door of the sacrestia, under the graceful nail head of S.Giacomo.

As we have said, the Sanctuary of Dinnamare was remained without a fixed picture. The Madonna thought in order to make to you to place it. "a shepherd of buoi, of the family Glances at, was to watch its herd to the stratums of the mount. Salted on the summit, s' imbatte in a stone tablet, high two palms and wide a palm and means, dov' were carved rozzamente the Madonna with the Child between the arms. If the door to house to Larderia, but the following morning does not find more to it in house, but in the place where it had found the day to it before. The filler to house for others two times and others two times finds again it on the top of the mount. Known that, the Chaplain of Larderia, it orders that the stone tablet ports in parish. Made saying. But the following day the tablet was found in top to the mount. It was too much manifest that the Madonna wanted star lassù. And lassù placed it over the altar. In the night of the 30 september a 1837, during a terrible thunderstorm, lightning hit the stone tablet found from the shepherd Glances at that it was bulwark over the altar of Dinnamare. They remained intact only the witness and it leave of the neck of the Madonna and the Child. Some fragments were wall to you in the Church of S. Sebastiano to Advanced Larderia, to the skillful side of the greater altar, where still they are venera you from the faithfuls. Other stone tablet came soon placed, in place of before, in the Sanctuary of Dinnamare, representative the Saintest Vergine with the Child in arm. To inferior sides the two dolphins look at themselves that they carry the image on the back. That marble tablet still is to its place in the Sanctuary.

To our times, in the festivity of Dinnamare (3, 4 and 5 August) is transported processionalmente, in the first 3 hours of the mattino of August, from Larderia to the mount, the beautiful picture of Michele Panebianco, good messinese painter of the 1800's, fact to execute to expenses of the faithfuls. The painter represents the scene of the transport of the picture on the back of the dolphins. The Madonna is assisa in throne, with the Child supported over the skillful arm the face of the Madonna is sweet much, and inspires devozione. The Child is leggiadro. Null he lacks to the picture for being able to dirsi beautiful. 3 August, before that the sun rises, the picture already is placed on the altar of the Sanctuary mounts and you it remains until to the morning of the following day. In the afternoon and during the night, from all the viottoli that put to the Sanctuary, hordes of pilgrims with cereei in hand and, often barefoot, for ballot. After the last putting of day 5, the Picture, closed in one scato it of wood, comes carried, between Alive songs and Maria, to the stratums of Dinnamare, dov' is the Church of Saint Biagio. Here, in the afternoon of 5 August, door in processione for the ways of Larderia, in whose parochial church, the morning has carried out solemn functions. The Sanctuary of Dinnamare, that it rose just on the top of the mount, was restored various times in the course of the centuries (in the 1886 from Giuseppe Caprì for devozione of Suor Concetta Caprì). Saying Sanctuary, for governmental disposition, was demolished year 1899, because in that place fortress had to be constructed one. The same government who demolished it, made it to rebuild, but more low, an distant sessantina of meters from the fortress, and is that one puts into effect them anch' restructured it of recent.