The intimate drama of Sophia Loren and the secret that brought her to Lourdes

Today we will tell you about an episode that happened to a very famous actress Sophia Loren which led her to Lourdes. An unknown story that the great diva has jealously kept in her heart.

This is the story of a delicate episode that the actress only revealed to her family at the time. Loren, outlining her relationship with the faith he told abouttermination of pregnancy and the promise to Virgin to go on pilgrimage to Lourdes.

In an interview in a Catholic weekly he tells the following.

The actress opens the interview by referring to a scene from one of her famous films "Italian wedding” where she played an 18-year-old girl who became pregnant who, not knowing whether to have an abortion or not, turned to Our Lady of the Roses for advice.

With this episode he confides his intimate relationship with the Madonna and his friendly way of addressing her. A faith that has always existed and has been strengthened precisely in the 1967when she was diagnosed with abortion.

In that context of sadness and despair, she promised the Madonna that once she was recovered she would go to visit her at Lourdes.

Sophia received a Catholic education and for her the traditions, the white dress, the church were very important. Unfortunately, however, her husband Carlo he was divorced and because of this they were forced to marry only with the civil rite. Having to give up something so important led her to move away from the faith.

The meeting of Sophia Loren and Pope Francis

With the arrival of her two children, Edward and Charles however, everything changed and the actress began to cultivate her special relationship with the Madonna again, to pray and feel close to her. Another episode that she recalls with joy dates back to 2018 when he went to the hearing from Papa Francesco. The actress always followed him on television, but seeing him was a great thing for her emozione. That face, that smile and that sincere way of speaking further strengthened her relationship with faith.

Hers was indeed a diva life but she has always been accompanied and protected by faith and by true lightthat of Mary.