Angela Merici

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

• Lived here

  Casa di Sant'Angela Merici at Le Grezze

  She spent much of her youth and early adulthood in the Merici family’s rural home at Le Grezze.

• Commemorated here

  Chapel of Casa Merici

  She is shown praying beneath the Cross in the chapel’s principal icon.

• Commemorated here

  Church of Saint Angela Merici at Le Grezze

  She appears both as a young rural woman in a wooden sculpture and as a pilgrim in the historic altarpiece.

• Lived here

  Merici Farmhouse Kitchen and Courtyard

  The kitchen, courtyard and well belong to the traditional setting of her everyday family life at Le Grezze.

• Commemorated here

  Posthumous Portrait of Angela Merici

  The portrait records her appearance immediately after her death in January 1540.

• Commemorated here

  Saint Angela Merici Altar in Desenzano Cathedral

  She appears glorified beside Saints Anthony of Padua and Aloysius Gonzaga in the cathedral altarpiece.

• Lived here

  Saint Angela Merici Birthplace and Plaque

  She is traditionally believed to have been born and to have spent her earliest years in the house identified here.

• Commemorated here

  Saint Angela Merici Chapel and Relics

  Her life and Brodazzo vision are represented throughout the chapel, which also contains relics associated with her.

• Commemorated here

  Statue of Saint Angela Merici

  The monument portrays the Desenzano-born founder of the Company of Saint Ursula and patron of the city.