Description: fresco cm 140×100. It depicts the seated Madonna, slightly turned with her head bowed towards her right, and the standing Child completely naked, who holds a swallow with his left hand while blessing with his right. The Virgin wears a red dress under the blue mantle that covers her head. For some, the fresco predates 1400, for others it is to be placed between the 15th and 16th centuries. According to Antonio Corbara, it is from the 16th century and stylistically belongs to the Faenza group, which includes works like S. Maglorio (detached fresco now in the Museum of Ceramics in Faenza), the Madonna della Pieve Tho, and the Pietà of the Monte dei Pegni in Faenza. The fresco was originally monochromatic (ochre-red), and was colored in the 18th century. Entered into use: between the year 1400 and 1500 Image: Painting
Notes on the collection: Today there is no collection, but there were some until 1938, then they were alienated to make the golden crown. Type of ex-votos: Jewelry objects

The exact origin of the oratory is unknown, documented with certainty only in the early 1600s. The sanctuary built close to the corner (cantone) of the apse of the Pieve, now Co-Cathedral, presumably dates back to the 15th century. It was built to protect the image of the Madonna frescoed on the wall, but over the centuries it was enriched with decorations and furnishings. On the facade, recently redone, various epigraphs for escaped dangers of the City are walled. Tradition connects the origins of the cult of the Blessed Virgin of the Cantone to the military event of May 19, 1358, in which, mainly thanks to the women of Modigliana, the mercenaries of the Great Company were repelled, thus saving Modigliana from devastation and plunder. The four famous lunettes by Silvestro Lega, once existing in the Sanctuary, which between 1858 and 1863 replaced other chiaroscuro paintings on the same theme (plague, famine, war, and earthquake), allude to equally miraculous interventions of the heavenly mother: in the plague of 1630, in the cholera of 1855, in the famine of 1648 and 1816, in the earthquake of March 1661 and October 1725, in the feared siege of 1641, in the insurrection of 1799 against French domination. For the cessation of the plague of 1630, on February 10, 1646, the City Council decided to erect a monument of gratitude to the Heavenly Mother: thus, the following year, on the tower dominating the Castle gate, an elegant tribune was built where a large statue was placed, due to the chisel of the Bolognese Clemente Molli, reproducing the features of the Madonna del Cantone. This civic monument to the Heavenly Patroness, seriously damaged in the last war, was completely restored in 1948. On this occasion, Bishop Mons. Massimiliani reconsecrated the city and diocese to the Blessed Virgin of the Cantone.
Tradition connects the origins of the cult of the Blessed Virgin of the Cantone to the military event of May 19, 1358, in which, mainly thanks to the women of Modigliana, the mercenaries of the Great Company were repelled, thus saving Modigliana from devastation and plunder.
On the facade, recently redone, various epigraphs for escaped dangers of the City are walled.
BIBLIOGRAPHY – In addition to the texts specifically dedicated to this place of worship, reference is made to some significant repertoires that present sections related to the sanctuary. – ARTICLE IN MISCELLANY – Pezzoli Stefano, ‘General Repertoire of Sanctuaries in Emilia Romagna’, in Art and Sanctuaries in Emilia Romagna 1987, pp. 179 – 239. (For the diocese of Faenza-Modigliana, the following sanctuaries are described: Blessed Virgin of the Cantone).
from 1938 until the Second Vatican Council there were indulgenced prayers.

47015 Modigliana, Province of Forlì-Cesena, Italy