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The construction of the new parish church began in 1950 and continued until 1966. The church, designed by Mariano Pittana, in Romanesque-Gothic style, with a gabled facade preceded by a stone portico, is an interesting testimony of contemporary art, especially for the plastic, pictorial, and glass works by the Veronese artist Pino Casarini (1897-1972), who worked there from 1961. 

The altarpiece represents the Madonna enthroned with the child between St. Andrew and the blessed Tristano d’Attimis, the latter of Cordovado mother and martyred in China (1707-1748). On the triumphal arch, there is the fresco of the Last Supper; the Annunciation is instead painted in the upper register of the arch that concludes the apse and the Deposition on the altar frontal.

The work with the most extensive spatial scope is the Final Judgment placed on the wall above the central door.

Noteworthy is the stained glass rose window on the facade with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the bronzes of the tabernacle and the portal with the ten panels of the Old and New Testament.

At the temple, the Milanese Aristide Albertella worked on the stained glass windows, Giuseppe Scalambrin from Fossalta for the baptistery cover, the sculptor Italo Costantini for the terracotta group of the Stations of the Cross and the Nativity (1967-1968), the four triptychs of the saints (choir) and the five panels of Eucharistic subjects (altar), the hanging cross above the altar.

In this temple, works from the ancient cathedral were placed, including: the SS. Lawrence, Stephen, Peter, and Paul created by a very young Bernardino Blaceo (1530); the evocative arrangement of the Madonna of the Rosary (circa 1586) by Giuseppe Moretto; the Madonna of Mount Carmel with the child and the SS. Agatha, Margaret, Gregory ?(Urban Pope), Anthony of Padua and Juliana by an anonymous Venetian from the late seventeenth century; and Name of Jesus (SS. Philip Neri and Francis de Sales adoring the monogram of Christ) by Nicola Grassi from the period 1730-1740, a work connected to the homonymous confraternity established since 1615.

From the sanctuary of the B.V. are the canvases of the Dominican St. Antoninus of Florence, the Crucifixion by Baldassar d’Anna, the Bishops Matteo Sanudo the Elder and Younger (anonymous from the first half of the 17th century) and the processional throne of the Madonna of Mount Carmel (18th century). In the side chapel, there is the restored canvas of the Nursing Madonna with child by the anonymous Master of Cordovado (follower of Tommaso da Modena), from the late 14th century, coming from the Church of S. Maria di Campagna, and the canvas Eternal Father with angels (anonymous).

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