Chiesa della Madonna di Galliera e di San Filippo Neri

About this audio guide

This guide to the Madonna di Galliera church in Bologna follows a small, worn panel of the Virgin and Child that the Renaissance facade here was built to shelter, and the pilgrims across generations who trusted it enough to keep it exactly as it was. You will hear what happened when the panel began to deteriorate in the sixteen hundreds, and why the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri later took over the church. Best heard at the carved marble doorway, looking up at the facade devotion paid for.