Today’s main altar was ordered by father Teodoro Pezza da Cuceglio in 1834 and consecrated in 1836. Over the side entrance doors there are busts of St. Francis and St. Bonaventure. On either side of the altar, on top, are four stands with gratings in gilded wood. The pipe organ
St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of Turin, is portrayed in the canvas painted by Rodolfo Morgari in 1862. The stucco and frescoes are valuable work by Giovanni Andrea Casella, active in Piedmont in the first half of the seventeenth century. They represent the saints Cosmas and Damian crowned
Special attention will be provided to sick, disabled, and people living in suffering, as in the previous expositions. In order to accommodate them and their carers in a proper and comfortable manner, the Pastoral Health Care of the Diocese of Turin, together with the organizing Committee, arranged a number of
The altarpiece, painted in 1860 by Rodolfo Morgari, represents the Virgin Mary with the Child and, below, Saint Antonio Abate and Saint Massimo, the first bishop of Turin. The altar holds the remains of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at age 24 in 1925. In his short life he
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