Location Brescia, Italy Province Province of Brescia Phone +39 030 230 4223 | Affiliation Roman Catholic Architectural style Renaissance architecture Architectural type Church | |
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Completed Reconstructed after World War Two Address Via Francesco Crispi, 23, 25121 Brescia BS, Italy Similar Sant'Afra - Brescia, Santi Faustino e Giovita, Sant'Alessandro - Brescia, Saint Giovanni Evangelista, Church of Saint Faustino i | ||
Il santuario di sant angela merici brescia
Sant'Angela Merici is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church located on Via Francesco Crispi, in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
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History
It was once known as the church of Sant'Afra, and thus was often confused with the distinct Sant'Afra in Sant'Eufemia, which now known by just Sant'Afra. The present church of Sant'Angela Merici was also known as the church of San Faustino ad Sanguinem.
The site known as the cemetery of San Latino and was venerated for centuries as the location for the burials of many Christian martyrs. The church is the burial site of Saint Angela Merici, founder of the Order of Ursulines. In the 1500s, a church was built at the site. After near complete destruction by bombardments during the Second World War, the structure was reconstructed, “as it was and where it was”.
The paintings from the interior had been stored in safety during the war, and thus the church contains works by Pietro Maria Bagnadore, Grazio Cossali, Palma the Younger, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Pietro Marone, Federico Barocci, and a polyptych by Paolo Caylina the Younger, It contains a ‘’Baptism of Saint Afra’’ by Francesco Bassano the Younger and a Transfiguration by Tintoretto . The crypt contains paleochristian burial sites.