Architect Antonio Romei, encharged of the project of the church, was inspired by the Renaissance lines of the Dominican Basilica of Santa Maria Novella (Firenze)

The ground slope allowed the building of several underway and rooms under the street level, and a crypt under the church.

The inside of the church at the beginning

While invoking the protection of the Virgin Mary, works started on the first of August 1876; the money for building the church came from some donors and from selling the books written by Mons.Pio.

At the beginning of summer, in 1881, the church was finalized and the day for the solemn blessing was arranged on the tuesday of the eighth of Corpus Domini, the 21st june, 1881.

  

WORKS FOR REFURBISHING THE CHURCH

The church and the choir after the reburbishing works in the 60s

The church has always been an integral part of the building complex of the Monastery. During the 50s and 60s of the last century, it underwent several reburbishing works, changes and it was also expanded. Such changes did not take into account the original style and therefore they did not harmonize properly with the existing structure.

 

      

The nave, the apse and the altar after the refurbishing in the 90s

 

 

View from up above of the celebration for the placing of Mons.Pio’s corpse

Through the time the need for a new refurbishing arose, an aesthetic refurbishing to amend the mixture of different elements and styles. In 1997 works finally began to unify the church architecture and bring it back to its original idea, that was creating a modern and simplified interpretation of the elegant lines of S.Maria Novella.

The choir and the sacristy

 

 

The bass-relief of the ciborio it is work of Amalia Ciardi Duprè

 

 

The vetrate ones to shape of rosone: God Father and the Pentacost

 

In the lunette, two angels invoking the Holy Spirit which descends as a dove

Rear wiev of church

360° panoramic view of the Church interior

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