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Church · Napoli (NA)

Church of Santa Maria dell'Aiuto

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of Santa Maria dell'Aiuto
Photo: Baku · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized

Baroque church near Santa Maria la Nova, designed by Dionisio Lazzari in 1673 for a Marian image held to be miraculous.

On the street of the same name, near Santa Maria la Nova, the church grew from a paper image of the Madonna placed in a shrine by two devout young men. With the first offerings they built a little chapel and had the image copied onto canvas, having themselves portrayed beside the Virgin.The graces received during the plague of 1656 multiplied the donations, and in 1673 Dionisio Lazzari designed the present church. Tradition says that any veil placed in front of the painting ends up dissolving.

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