Santuario di Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso
Renaissance sanctuary built around a painted Madonna reported to have moved before three hundred witnesses in fourteen eighty-five.
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This guide to the Santuario di Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Milan opens at eleven in the morning on December 30, 1485, with three hundred people crowded into a small chapel near the end of a plague year, before a painted Madonna and child normally hidden behind a curtain. It follows what those witnesses swore they saw, and the archbishop's investigators who spent over a year weighing their sworn testimony. Listen for how word of that morning tore through a terrified city.
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