Chiesa di Santa Maria Liberatrice

Santa Maria Liberatrice takes its meaning from the moment Milan shifted from war to the promise of peace. In Christmas 1943, Archbishop Ildefonso Schuster—just after the fall of fascism—made a vow to dedicate one of the new parish churches to Mary. The story places Milan’s survival, after the German and “repubblichini” forces and the fear of final destruction, in the hands of the Madonna’s intercession, and the following year he set the liturgical celebration for the Sunday after 25 April. In the postwar building boom, the southern area of the city still relied on a small old church dedicated to the Assunta, so in 1952 an association devoted to Santa Maria Liberatrice officially proposed a new church. In 1956, the future Pope Paul VI—then Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini—laid the first stone. …

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