POLSI to be precise !
Every year in Australia, for example, there is a celebration for Our
Lady of the Mountain of Polsi. For the majority of migrants the festival serves to
reaffirm the identity of origin, as rightly pointed out by the Italian–Australian scholar
Gerardo Papalia (2008), and in this sense it can be seen as one of the many Marian feasts
of immigrants from Calabria around the world (Rosoli, 1990). However, it cannot be
dismissed that such a festival also has strong symbolic significance for the clans of the
‘ndrangheta who consider the Madonna of the Mountain their protector. In Polsi, the
‘ndrangheta holds their annual summit during the festival to regulate the lives and affairs
of the criminal organisation (Ciconte, 2011; DNA, 2012)