Thursday, March 14, 2019

St. MARY OF GRACES IN THE TRIONFALE NEIGHBORHOOD

S. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE AL TRIONFALE
1941 Tullio Rossi (1903/97)
Built here in 1936 after the destruction of the church in Via di Porta Angelica in order to rearrange Borgo neighborhood. It was known as S. Maria delle Grazie in Porta Angelica
In Via di Porta Angelica, on the corner of a building near Piazza Risorgimento, there is now a mosaic with the image of the icon kept in the church
COUNTER FAƇADE
Painting “Apparition of the Virgin to St. Pius V Ghislieri (1566/72) on the occasion of the Christian victory at the Battle of Lepanto” by Umberto Colonna
PILLARS
Fourteen paintings with “Mysteries of the Rosary” by the Friulian painter Giuseppe Ciotti (1898/1991)
LEFT AISLE
“Icon of Our Lady of Grace with Child” eleventh or twelfth century, brought in 1587 from the Holy Land by the hermit Albenzio De Rossi

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