According to legend, fisherman John M. Bogović Tumburko, back in 1722. The catching fish around the Cape peninsula Gradina saw a strange light. When he approached the rock from which is reached, the light, he found a picture that shows Mary, which shows Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth. The picture was took it home and put it in the chest, but she inexplicably returned to the same place. And so it is repeated three times. Soon the villagers together with the then priest, decided to build a chapel in that place, a ceremony in its present form was established in 1776th year.
The miraculous image was burned in the parish church, and second, that sixties stolen, was in Vienna 1888th year. Silver is a picture frame and, weigh 13 kg, by Split goldsmith Valle in the draft Ive Pavkovic, kalafata from Rogoznica.
The picture shows a very special moment: After learning that she is pregnant Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with God's grace, though old and about to give birth of John the Baptist, who will prepare the people for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Larger chapel was built since 1907. - 1909 - entrepreneur John Quero of Lecce in Italy. The altar is the work of Paul Bilinić, from Split, made 1914th thanks to the charity of the accumulated total of 7180 crowns, and I am the author of his work took only 400 kroner. Chapel's pastor blagosovio Dr. Ivan Katalinic.
The ceremony is held 2nd July, Petrovčič, when the painting of Our Lady transported by ship, accompanied by priests and young girls dressed in white robes, and Caparin waterfront, where he greeted the Bishop of Šibenik, accompanied by a dozen priests and thousands of believers, only to have everyone together in a procession along the waterfront Rogoznica Our Lady's image transferred to the parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Our Lady's image remains in the parish church until the first Sunday after Our Lady of Mount Caramel when the solemn procession by sea and land returned to its sanctuary at the tip of the peninsula of Gradina. In the procession of hundreds of boats and thousands of believers who cross on foot, about 2.5 km votive times, most often barefoot. In the past, the Virgin Mary floating boat boys followed, and today they are joined by a girl.
In the 1887th the smallpox epidemic of black measles and daily related to 40 life. The former pastor don Tode Pavlivić gathered believers and they went barefoot in the Shrine of Virgin Mary Our Lady praying for mercy. From the 24th January stopped dying in place, patients were healed, and on this day - church holiday - are regularly held Mass in the Chapel.
Perhaps this Marian feast Rogoznica best described by Dr. Drago Šimunđa in his sermons inspired the 1996th The words:
"These ships, fire, song, a beautiful procession calling me in mind 274 years as the glory of the Lady Chapel and its miraculous arrival among us, calling my mind 1400 years how my people pray to God and the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast comes alive in our history, identity, Rogoznica, what testifies to its being a long Croatian faith and tradition. this ceremony revives all our history and culture is deeply rooted in this rocky, stone, warm waters and beautiful churches built by the love and spiritual value, despite the severity of the victim filed when it becomes an ideal ... "
Miraculous Rogoznicka patron, whose shrine is, at its sole discretion, placed on the door of the beautiful surrounding bays keeps his regiment and the harbor from all suffering for nearly three long centuries.