Santa Maria della Consolazione


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Cappella dei Santa Maria delle Grazie
In 1045 Pope Gregory VI founded a hospital next to its church, which took the same name. However, it did not last long because in 1084 both hospital and church were burned by the Normans under Robert Guiscard. The icon was found unharmed in the ruins, and taken to the sacristy of the Lateran. The complex was rebuilt just west of the ancient Basilica Iulia in the Forum, and the icon was ceremonially re-installed in the new church in 1088. There it remained until 1876.

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