Pompeii is God's work, the temple of the Spirit, a place of conversion and of reconciliation, of mercy and prayer, of spirituality and holiness. It is the Town of Mary who is venerated as the Virgin of the Rosary, at whose school millions of pilgrims learn to listen to the words of Her Son Jesus and to make of them their reason of life.
Pompeii is the gift of Bartolo Longo's love, a man in love with life, a saint advocate who, animated by an extraordinary Marian piety, engaged all his life at the service of the Gospel, building a new town of love.
Pompeii is a workshop of solidarity and of human promotion. Thousands of boys and girls, of men and women who are victims of the social uneasiness, have been welcomed and given back to their human dignity.
Pompeii is a crossroads of men and peoples, of cultures and nationalities, a meeting place for a mankind thirst for God and longing for legality and justice, for hope and peace. It is the portal of eternity, the projection of mankind in God's time, the prophecy on man and history's future. It is a "town placed on the mount" in order to indicate to all men of good will the way to accomplish to reach, guided by the Virgin Mary, God's City, the Holy Jerusalem.