The Servites were the first ecclesiastical order active in the monastery and they are the reason why it became a place of pilgrimage.
In 1846, the monastery was engulfed in flames and it had to wait until the end of the 19th century for renovation, when the Redemptorists arrived. In the 1950s, 500 monks were interned there. The monastery then became the home of the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for another forty years, who succeeded in renewing the site and the practice of going on pilgrimage.
