Chiesa del Corpus Domini
Chiesa del Corpus Domini is Milan’s Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Eucharist, part of the municipio 1 parish network and within the deanery of San Siro–Sempione–Vercellina. Its story starts with padre Gerardo Beccaro (1846–1912), a Carmelite whose aim was a monumental “temple” to the Santa Eucaristia. He proposed the idea at the second Eucharistic Congress in Turin, held from 2 to 6 September 1894, after returning from missions in the eastern Indies. Funding came through the Santa Lega Eucaristica, a league that gathered believers to help pay for construction. A first provisional seat was consecrated in September 1895 in a wooden pavilion salvaged from the 1894 Esposizioni riunite held in Parco Sempione. …
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