San Martino (magenta)
The Basilica of San Martino is a church painted in magenta in the Italian metropolitan city of Milan , Lombardy . The parish church of the Archdiocese of Milan is Martin of Tours and St. Dedicated to Joachim and bears the title of a minor basilica .
history
At the end of the 19th century, Vicar Cesare Tragella initiated the construction of a new church. A larger church was to be built for the growing city and in memory of the victorious Battle of Magenta in 1859. The architect Alfonso Parrocchetti designed a three-aisled basilica in the neo-renaissance style with a length of 87 meters, a width in the transept of 30 meters and a height of the Tiburios of 57 meters, it is the widest in the diocese after the Milan Cathedral .
After the laying of the foundation stone, the building could be celebrated with a first fair in 1901. The church was consecrated on October 24, 1903 by Cardinal Archbishop Andrea Carlo Ferrari . However, this prevented the originally planned reburial of those killed in battle in the church.
In 1913, the 69 meter high bell tower was completed and consecrated next to the apse in the same style with the support of the engineer Monti. The construction work on the facade designed by the architect Mariani with scenes of St. Martin started in 1932 and was not completed until 1959 due to the economic hardship resulting from lack of funds and the events of the war. The facade was consecrated on June 4th of the same year by the Archbishop of Milan Giovanni Battista Montini (later Pope Paul VI). As early as March 3, 1948, Pope Pius XII. granted the church the title of minor basilica. The ringing of the Campanile with eight bells in La2 Maggiore was cast in 1964 by Paolo Capanni.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Basilica di S. Martino Vescovo on gcatholic.org
- ↑ La basilica sul sito della Pro Loco di Magenta. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 23, 2013 ; Retrieved January 25, 2012 (Italian).
Coordinates: 45 ° 27 '53.3 " N , 8 ° 52' 54.6" E