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In 1853, thanks to the donation of a rich local owner, sir Pietro Lucchini, the ancient oratory dedicated to Sant' Ilario was replaced from an artistic more valid building, still today a lot admired from all the amadors.
Therefore proclaim the registration, still today existing, on one wall of the church, with the following Latin words:
ARGENTEIS ITALICIS DCLXXXXVI
EX PIO PETRI ANTONII LUCHINI LEGATO ADDICTIS
CONGRUO CURIONUM STIPENDIO CONFICIENDO
SACRAM HANC AEDEM
IN CURIALEM ECCLESIAM EREXIT
DIE XIV KAL. MAIAS MDCCCLIII
BARTOLOMOEUS CAROLUS ROMILIUS COMES
ARCHIEPISCOPUS MEDIOLANI
CURATORIBUS PAROECIAE RECENS INSTITUTAE
PETRO PEDRETTI MAURO VARRONE ET GASPARE RE CECCONI
The church has been embellished with several paintings, between which the two emerge had to the paint-brush of the painter Baton that, in 1898, it represented scenes of the life of Sant' Ilario.
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