San Michele Arcangelo e Santa Rita
San Michele Arcangelo e Santa Rita was built to serve a new popular quarter, and its parish story begins with that urban moment. The church was designed by the architect Felice Pasquè and consecrated on 28 September 1930 by Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, then Archbishop of Milan, as the church of the Regina Elena district completed in 1928. It is a Roman Catholic parish church within the Archdiocese of Milan, in the Decanato Vigentino. Inside, the most distinctive inheritance is an artwork tied to an older church tradition: it preserves the fresco of the “Madonna della Rosa,” in fifteenth-century style, carried over from the ancient church of San Michele alla Chiusa. That earlier church was closed to worship in 1927 and later demolished for reasons linked to the city’s regulatory plan. …
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