On The Death Of Velotti The Scheme Languished, And By And
By, Instead Of Building More Chapels, It Was Decided That It Would
Be Enough To Keep In Repair Those That Were Already Built.
These,
as I have said, are the chapels of S. Carlo, and the small ones
which are now seen upon the way up to it, but they are all in a
semi-ruinous state.
Besides the church of St. Mary of the Snow at Campra, there was
another which was an exact copy of the Santa Casa di Loreto, and
where there was a remarkable echo which would repeat a word of ten
syllables when the wind was quiet. This was exactly on the site of
the present sanctuary. It seemed a better place for the
continuation of Velotti's work than the one he had himself chosen
for it, inasmuch as it was where Signor Muratori so well implies a
centre of devotion ought to be, namely, in "a milder climate, and
in a spot which offers more resistance to the inclemency of the
weather, and is better adapted to attract and retain the concourse
of the faithful."
The design of the present church was made by an architect of the
name of Arduzzi, in the year 1654, and the first stone was laid in
1659. In 1687 the right of liberating a bandit every year had been
found to be productive of so much mischief that it was
discontinued, and a yearly contribution of two hundred lire was
substituted.
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