Opening on May 26, 2013!

Those figures sculpted in bronze bear in a symbolic watermark the name of many associated with the Pious Union of the Transit of St. Joseph who collaborated with their generosity to embellish the "Door of Faith" with the hope that it will truly be for those who will look out to that it brings a supernatural caress to instill courage in life and constancy in faith. The saints depicted in the bas-reliefs are champions of faith who realized the plans that God had for them.

It begins with Mary, Saint Joseph, the parents of Jesus, Saint Ambrose, Saint Charles, Don Guanella and the Blessed Chiara Bosatta and the Venerable Bacciarini: a crowd of Saints joins us in prayer. The new sculptures will offer hope, continuity of faith and works of charity. In the history of art the symbolic connection between the door of a church and that of heaven is frequent. The door of the house is defense, shelter, protection; the door of the church is an opening towards the infinite. From that door our profane being comes into contact with the divine and we offer praise, adoration, thanksgiving, requests for thanks. A door is always a place of passage, a threshold between two realities, in this case two worlds: the world of grace, of light, of consolation with the world of spiritual research, of eternal life, of fragility, of human poverty in search of redemption. On May 26th we will proceed with the inauguration of the new "Door of Faith" which will make the façade of our basilica even more splendid, with panels depicting the protagonists of our history of salvation who will accompany the faithful to the encounter with God through prayer. On May 26, in memory of the anniversary of Don Guanella's priestly ordination, we will realize a dream that he carried in his soul: to see sacred representations applied to the ancient door of the Milan cathedral. The cathedral door was dismantled to make room for the new bronze door designed by the sculptor Lodovico Pogliaghi.