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English:  Italy, South Tirol, Freienfeld, Sanctuary Maria Trens. Trens is also a place of pilgrimage, the church is dedicated to the miraculous image of “Our Lady of the Avalanche”, the ancient wooden statue of the “Madonna standing and the Child”, dating back to 1470. According to a legend a farmer found a wood carved statue among the debris of a landslide and carried it to his house. The following day the statue was founded in a chapel and the people began to venerate it. In a document dated September 10, 1345 it is mentioned for the first time of a church in Trens, in 1407 the family Trauston appointed a weekly Mass to be celebrated on Tuesday in the church. The present church was built in 1498 in Late Gothic with two main entrance; in order to ease the construction the priest of Stilves obtained a “littera indulgentiarum” from twelve cardinals in 1482. The chaplain of the deanery of Trens received in 1648 the commission to say Mass every day in Trens; the pilgrimages to the church increased. The “Chapel of Our Lady” was inaugurated on March 29, 1728 and take place on the left side of the nave with the wall covered by the numerous votive offering. At the half of 18th century the church underwent to a restoration in Baroque on project by Joseph Adam Ritter von Mölk. The miraculous image was crowned in 1928 and the church became parish in 1939.