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Museum of the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin
Corbetta's account of spirituality
What it is and where it is
500 years of history of the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Corbetta deserve to be told properly. That is why, next to the shrine, in the premises of the former rectory, a museum dedicated precisely to the shrine has been set up. It consists of two adjoining rooms that collect artistic goods, objects of popular devotion, liturgical garments, and donations. In the first room at the entrance are the liturgical robes used on April 17, 1955 for the coronation of Our Lady of Corbetta as area patroness by Giovanni Battista Montini, later to become Pope Paul VI. In the second room, great excitement awaits us.
Why it is special
It is the place where the entire history of the shrine and its strong connection to the town and to a very well-known and beloved figure is collected: St. Charles Borromeo. The second room of the museum, in fact, holds the furnishings of the room in which the saint stayed during his visits to Corbetta, a unicum in the panorama of relics related to him. These furnishings were previously kept at the Frisiani Family palace in the village, but were moved here to complete the museum's narrative and to integrate them into the larger context of the shrine's history.
Not to be missed
There are three works that are capable, more than others, of arousing emotions in those who look at them: the painting of Our Lady of the Rosary by Giulio Cesare Procaccini, which dates back to 1612 and is one of the most significant works by the leading artist of the early Lombard Baroque; the furnishings of St. Charles Borromeo's bedroom used during his visits to Corbetta; and finally, the robes used for the coronation of Our Lady of Corbetta in 1955.
A bit of history
The museum was born from an initial nucleus prepared on the occasion of Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster's visit in 1938, thanks to donations from the Frisiani Family. It was reopened and inaugurated again in 2010 on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the canonization of St. Charles Borromeo by Auxiliary Bishop Mauro Virgilio Ferrari.
Curiosities
Inside the museum there is a cardinal's biretta, the tricorn, which belonged to St. Charles Borromeo and was left by him to the Frisiani Family together with a portrait painted in Corbetta. The biretta is the result of a substitution made by the wife of Gottardo Frisiani, who hosted St. Charles in Corbetta on the last night of the saint's stay in the village. Practically while the saint was resting, the lady replaced the original cardinal's biretta with one made by her! In this way she obtained a relic that we can still admire in the museum today.
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