Politics
Angela Merici
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Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Santa Maria Maggiore church
Angela Merici is commemorated in the Santa Maria Maggiore church.
Traces in other cities
- Desenzano del Garda
- 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.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Chapel of Casa Merici — She is shown praying beneath the Cross in the chapel’s principal icon.
- Desenzano del Garda
- 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.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Merici Farmhouse Kitchen and Courtyard — The kitchen, courtyard and well belong to the traditional setting of her everyday family life at Le Grezze.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Posthumous Portrait of Angela Merici — The portrait records her appearance immediately after her death in January 1540.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Saint Angela Merici Altar in Desenzano Cathedral — She appears glorified beside Saints Anthony of Padua and Aloysius Gonzaga in the cathedral altarpiece.
- Desenzano del Garda
- 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.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Saint Angela Merici Chapel and Relics — Her life and Brodazzo vision are represented throughout the chapel, which also contains relics associated with her.
- Desenzano del Garda
- Statue of Saint Angela Merici — The monument portrays the Desenzano-born founder of the Company of Saint Ursula and patron of the city.
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