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  At the centre of this altarpiece, there is the Madonna and Child on a throne. On the left the older man is Saint Peter, he holds a key, according to the legend it can open the doors of the paradise. At the bottom there is Saint Rocco, who shows a plague caused by an epidemic to the Madonna. On the right, the man dressed in red, and with a scroll is Saint John the Baptist. The last saint is Saint Antony from Padua. He is a friar in his hand, he holds the flower that symbolizes purity, the lily.

  At the center there is God the father who old his dead son and the dove. Around them there are the angels who show to the viewer the instruments used to crucify Jesus Christ. The entire scene is set on a cloud, below it there is a winter landscape.

The Madonna is depicted standing, with her hands crossed on her chest in greeting as she advances towards the kneeling archangel. The Virgin is dressed in a long robe with a golden belt: the angel is instead provided with a cloak and a tight robe.

The author of this fresco is Vincenzo Pagani who lived here in the XVI century. The theme of the Madonna Of The Rescue was very acclaimed by the local people. According to a legend a young mother  exasperated by the vivacity of her child, told to the devil to take his son, this truly happened and the scared mother asked the Maddonna. She appeared with a large stick, he put the devil under his feet and freed the child.

Cecilia was a noble and virtuous Christian woman, she converted on her wedding day, her husband Valeriano and her brother-in-law Triburzio, who, baptized by the bishop Urbano, soon found martyrdom at the hands of the prefect Almachio. After the death of the two young people, he brought Cecilia before him who refused to sacrifice to the idols confessing her faith. After having tried in vain to kill her through a bath of boiling water, the prefect handed her over to the executioner to be beheaded, but the three blows inflicted with the axe did not manage to detach her head.

This reliquary is dedicated to our patroness Santa Maria Maddalena, the first person to see Jesus Christ after his resurrection. At the center there is a fragment of a finger of the Magdalene, the sculptor was Antonio Mattei who lived in Rome in the XVIII Century.