Main altar

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

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The Chapel of St. John the Baptist

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

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Sick and disabled

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

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