Around the 15th and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century, on the Italian Adriatic coast to the Apennines, the Sacred tattoo began to spread.
Caterina Pigorini Beri, in this book of 1889, traces the birth of this interesting custom and collects a hundred drawings of the original tattoos..
The origins of this tradition came from the Sanctuary of Loreto, probably it was an act of devotion or perhaps recognition.
They were blue tattoos of figures, mottos, crosses, Sacred symbols, pierced hearts, skulls and anchors.
The inhabitants and pilgrims of these lands had the use of tattooing their hands or forearms near their wrists.
Around the 15th and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century, on the Italian Adriatic coast to the Apennines, the Sacred tattoo began to spread