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The Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (official name: Basilica romana minore collegiata abbaziale prepositurale di Sant'Ambrogio) [1] is an ancient Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church in the center of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.
San Carlo al Corso view from top of Spanish Steps. The church of the Saints Ambrogio and Carlo al Corso is the national church of the Lombards, to whom in 1471 Pope Sixtus IV gave, in recognition of their valuable construction work of the Sistine Chapel, the small church of S. Niccolò del Tufo, which was first restored and then dedicated to S. Ambrogio, the patron saint of Milan.
In early 4th-century, their relics were translated, probably by the Bishop of Milan Maternus from their place of interment to a place outside the walls of Milan, placed a few hundred meters north of the present Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio. A church (Basilica Naboriana) was built over their new tomb, as recorded by Paulinus of Milan in his life of ...
Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio: Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio The basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (basilega de Sant Ambroeus in Milanese dialect), whose full name is basilica romana minore collegiata abbaziale prepositurale di Sant'Ambrogio [85] (its original early Christian name was basilica martyrum), is one of the oldest churches in Milan and is located in ...
Late Antique Mosaic of Saint Ambrose (~337-397) in Sant'Ambrogio church, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, possibly an actual portrait made in his lifetime. Only the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosians, the Fratres S. Ambrosii ad Nemus, had anything more than a very local significance.
The prominent baroque basilica church of Sant'Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso is located on via del Corso in Rome, and was erected in the early 17th century. The prominent Neolassical church of San Francesco di Paola in the central Piazza del Plebiscito of Naples, also influenced by Patheon, had been started in 1816.
The Sacra di San Michele, sometimes known as Saint Michael's Abbey, is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, situated on the south side of the Val di Susa in the territory of the municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.
The church was rebuilt by Giovanni Battista Foggini in the 17th century. [1] A legend says that on 30 December 1230 a chalice which had not been cleaned was, the next day, found to contain blood rather than wine by Uguccione, the parish priest. This Eucharistic miracle made the church a place of pilgrimage.