The Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fontanellato, Italy
The Blessed Andrea Ferrari, archbishop of Milan from 1894 to 1921, was brought to the shrine as a child by his mother, and miraculously healed of a serious illness. He maintained a special devotion to the Madonna of Fontanellato all his life, coming each year as a pilgrim; he celebrated his first Mass at the church’s main altar in 1873, and 25 years later, as archbishop, his silver jubilee of priestly ordination. This statue was erected to commemorate him in 1925.
I normally start these kinds of posts with the high altar, and work my way through the main body of the church and the side altars. In this case, however, the most impressive decorative features is this collection of altar frontals, made with a technique called “scagliola” in Italian, a composite of selenite, glue and natural pigments that imitates the appearance of inlaid marbles. (The Emilia-Romagna is poorly supplied with marble, and has come up with quite a few clever ways to decorate churches very beautifully, at considerably less expense than it would have taken to import marble from abroad.)
Altar of St Joseph; note the spiral columns imitated from those of the high altar of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
The church has been run by the Dominicans since its foundation, with some rude interruptions; the Order was expelled for six years under the Bourbon Duchy of Parma, for eleven in the Napoleonic era, and eleven more in the early years of the Kingdom of Italy. Several of the side altars are dedicated to Dominican Saints.
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2019/03/the-shrine-of-our-lady-of-rosary-in.html
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