It’s been six years since the devastating earthquakes that tore through central Italy, causing death, destruction and pain. People lost their homes, their loved ones and, in many cases, their livelihood; they lost their community, their social network and their familial heritage.

Perhaps nothing comes as close to the idea of total, complete loss as much as what the people of Amatrice, of Norcia, of Castelluccio experienced in those dramatic hours. And perhaps nothing symbolizes it better than the stark, heartbreaking image of the Basilica di San Benedetto’s façade after the earthquake, a lone wall with emptiness behind, where just a handful of minutes before history, spirituality and devotion had filled the space with beauty.