Madonna's hair is jealously preserved in a silver urn in the sanctuary of Crispin, located in the mountain village Pellegrino. This tradition dates back to 1650, when Father Antonio Faranda Crispiniano gave a fragment of the hermitage of the Virgin Mary Capello, for the notary Federico Dolcetto di Messina. Faranda father had the holy relic by the priest Paul Teloia Randazzo, who, in turn, had received as a gift by Cardinal del Val Ruiz in 1642. The donation was "bound" from the established worship in the period of each year. But fragments of history speak well of others had hair of Madonna by monfortesi. A document of the seventeenth century, preserved in the mother church of Monforte San Giorgio tells of another relic of "Hair Mariani - textual phrases - the reverend had Pirri the Order of the Knights of St. John of Messina" held in the church, while in procession revered one donated by Faranda. But it is certain also that the relics of which is narrated in the document are lost, and the precious "Capidduzzu" that today goes silver urn in procession, was donated by the priest Joseph Battiato Sant'Alfio in 1907, as evidenced by real guards in the mother church of the bishop monfortese.
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