The ceremony is officially consecrated on the occasion of the pilgrimage to Cima Grappa by the Patriarch of Venice, Card. Giuseppe Sarto (later Pope Pius X) on August 4, 1901, finding regular confirmation every summer.
The tremendous circumstances related to the massacre of over 23,000 soldiers of World War I indelibly mark the martyrdom of the territory, whose fallen find burial in the Italian and Austro-Hungarian Cemetery.
The Grappa massif is then a witness to the dramatic nazi-fascist roundup dated September 1944, with the sacrifice of many young lives barbarically cut short.
The important appointment on the first Sunday of August combines the memory of the many significant historical, civil, and religious events that have marked the territory of the Pedemontana, the Veneto Region, and the entire Nation, attracting thousands of people each year to Monte Grappa, including civil, military, and religious Authorities, as well as representatives of Associations from all over Veneto and Northern Italy.
The event is reiterated as a reflection on the themes of National Identity, Peace, coexistence among peoples, and the maintenance of ethical and historical values that have made Grappa the Sacred Mountain to the Fatherland, inextricably linking it to Italian and European History.
