Santuario di Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso

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.